Tensorflow Object Detection API

This is fork of the Tensorflow Object Detection API from the research/object_detection subdirectory of the upstream repository tensorflow/models.

To install: pip install https://github.com/autognc/object-detection/tarball/object-detection

Syncing upstream changes

In order to maintain a fork of only a subdirectory of an upstream repository, git subtree split was used. Unfortunately, this also means that merging in upstream changes is a bit more involved. Here are the steps for syncing the fork:

# clone and enter this repo
git clone https://github.com/autognc/object-detection
cd object-detection

# fetch the upstream repo
git remote add upstream https://github.com/tensorflow/models
git fetch upstream

# checkout upstream changes
git checkout upstream/master
git checkout <commit hash> # OPTIONAL: only if you don't want the most recent version

# split the subtree into a new branch (this may take awhile)
git subtree split --prefix research/object_detection -b tmp

# merge the changes
git checkout object-detection
git merge tmp

# clean up
git branch -D tmp

# push changes
git push origin object-detection

You might notice that this repo also has another branch, slim. That is because the object detection API depends on another subdirectory of the upstream repository, research/slim. If you update the object detection branch, then you should probably also update the slim branch to maintain compatibility:

git checkout upstream/master
git checkout <commit hash> # again optional, if you did do this above, you should probably use the same commit hash
git subtree split --prefix research/slim -b tmp
git checkout slim
git merge tmp
git branch -D tmp
git push origin slim