Object Detection Tensorflow

To get started with object detection have a look at the following jupyter notebook:

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/object_detection/object_detection_tutorial.ipynb 

Assuming that you have already setup your environment with tensorflow , in my case its  a docker container . You need to still execute the following instructions .

One issue i was getting was that the jupyter notebook kept failing at the following line  despite having followed all the instructions:

from object_detection.utils import ops as utils_ops

So i discovered that this was due to Python libraries not being availabe in PYTHONPATH:

# From tensorflow/models/research/
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:`pwd`:`pwd`/slim

if despite having executed the above in your container or your tensorflow environment the problem still persists in your Jupyter notebook consider adding it directly as can be seen below :

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import numpy as np

import os

import six.moves.urllib as urllib

import sys

import tarfile

import tensorflow as tf

import zipfile

from timeit import default_timer as timer

import cv2

sys.path.append('/notebooks/models/research') # point to your tensorflow dir

sys.path.append('/notebooks/models/research/slim') # point ot your slim dir

from collections import defaultdict

from io import StringIO

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

from PIL import Image

from object_detection.utils import ops as utils_ops

if tf.__version__ < '1.4.0':

  raise ImportError('Please upgrade your tensorflow installation to v1.4.* or later!')

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Note that I have also changed the default method to use opencv for faster image IO and a timer to determine performance.

You install opencv using :

sudo apt-get install python-opencv

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for image_path in TEST_IMAGE_PATHS:

  start = timer()

  #image = Image.open(image_path)

  image = cv2.imread(image_path)

 

  # the array based representation of the image will be used later in order to prepare the

  # result image with boxes and labels on it.

  #image_np = load_image_into_numpy_array(image)

  image_np = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)

 

  # Expand dimensions since the model expects images to have shape: [1, None, None, 3]

  #image_np_expanded = np.expand_dims(image_np, axis=0)

  image_np_expanded = np.expand_dims(image_np, axis=0)

  # Actual detection.

  output_dict = run_inference_for_single_image(image_np, detection_graph)

  # Visualization of the results of a detection.

  vis_util.visualize_boxes_and_labels_on_image_array(

      image_np,

      output_dict['detection_boxes'],

      output_dict['detection_classes'],

      output_dict['detection_scores'],

      category_index,

      instance_masks=output_dict.get('detection_masks'),

      use_normalized_coordinates=True,

      line_thickness=8)

  plt.figure(figsize=IMAGE_SIZE)

  plt.imshow(image_np)

  end = timer()

  duration = (end - start)

  print('Image: {0} took {1} to be processed'.format(image_path,duration))

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