Object Detection with Tensorflow for Intelligent Enterprise

In my previous blog, we have seen how the off-the-shelf Object Detection is applied in Enterprise context in conjunction with SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation. Now we will have a close look at how to implement custom object detection with tensorflow for serving intelligent solutions, especially how to train a custom object detector with custom dataset, and provision as RESTful API running on SAP Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry, which can be consumed by your intelligent solution through loosely-coupled HTTP(s). The TensorFlow Object Detection API is an open source framework built on top of TensorFlow that makes it easy to construct, train and deploy object detection models. For more detail, you may refer to its official document. In order to train your own object detector, you need to prepare the dataset for training, including the images with the target objects, and labelling the object in the images.