Evaluating Detectron, Facebook's Object Detection Platform • Filestack Blog

A few weeks ago, Facebook open-sourced its platform for object detection research, which they are calling Detectron. Object detection, wherein a machine learning algorithm detects the coordinates of objects in images, remains an ongoing challenge. To find algorithms that provide both sufficient speed and high accuracy is far from a solved problem. Detectron's ostensible purpose is to move a bit closer to that goal using community-led contributions. Google did something similar last year when they released the Tensorflow Object Detection API, which Filestack utilizes for its object detection models, so we thought we'd take a look at Detectron and see how it compares.