Colab Notebook to Train EfficientDet in the TensorFlow 2 Object Detection API

[Jacobsolawetz]

Prerequisites

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1. The entire URL of the documentation with the issue

The tutorial documentation was useful but did not generalize to EfficientDet well. To write this tutorial, I drew from the following resources:

• Rubber Ducky Intro Tutorial
• Inference Tutorial
• An Old TF1 OD API Tutorial
• @sayakpaul published a tutorial running on GCP

2. Describe the issue

Using the above resources, I wrote a tutorial to train EfficientDet in Google Colab with the TensorFlow 2 Object Detection API.

You can run this tutorial by changing just one line for your custom dataset import. I hope this tutorial allows newcomers to the repository to quickly get up and running with TensorFlow 2 for object detection!

In the tutorial, I write how to:

• Acquire Labeled Object Detection Data
• Install TensorFlow 2 Object Detection Dependencies
• Download Custom TensorFlow 2 Object Detection Dataset
• Write Custom TensorFlow 2 Object Detection Training Configuration
• Train Custom TensorFlow 2 Object Detection Model
• Export Custom TensorFlow 2 Object Detection Weights
• Use Trained TensorFlow 2 Object Detection For Inference on Test Images