Detecting Pikachu on Android using Tensorflow Object Detection

Deep inside the many functionalities and tools of TensorFlow, lies a component named TensorFlow Object Detection API. The purpose of this library, as the name says, is to train a neural network capable of recognizing objects in a frame, for example, an image. The use cases and possibilities of this library are almost limitless. It could be trained to detect people in an image, cats, cars, raccoons and many more. Due to this reason, I became interested in trying it myself with a custom model trained on my own.