TensorFlow Object Detection API Officially Supports TF2: Google

Earlier this month Google announced that the TF Object Detection API (OD API) officially supports TensorFlow 2. This comes as the tech giant has been working on making the TF ecosystem more compatible with frequently used models and libraries. The company has been migrating TF Object Detection API models to be TensorFlow 2 compatible since a year, which was evident in the Object Detection API GitHub repository, since the last few months. The company highlighted that this move aims at exposing users to the benefits of TF2 and Keras while being able to use TF1. "We believe that there might be many teams out there grappling with similar migration projects, so we thought that a few words about our thought process and approach here might be useful even for non-object-detection TensorFlow users," it said. With this, there are three kinds of users in the codebase -- new users, existing TF1 users who want to migrate to TF2 and existing TF1 users who do not want to migrate just yet.