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What is Faster R-CNN?

One of the most accurate object detection algorithms but requires a lot of power at inference time. A good choice if you can do processing asynchronously on a server.

About the model

Here is an overview of the

Faster R-CNN

model:

Date of Release
Model Type Object Detection
Architecture
Framework Used TensorFlow 1.5
Annotation Format Tensorflow TFRecord
Stars on GitHub 7800+

What is Faster R-CNN?

Faster R-CNN is a state-of-the-art object detection framework. It has been around for a while and has a lot of nice integrations. Despite its name, Faster R-CNN is known as being a slower model than some other choices (like YOLOv3 or MobileNet) for inference but in return is more accurate. It is one of the many model architectures that the TensorFlow Object Detection API provides by default, including with pre-trained weights, and the implementation in this notebook links in with Tensorboard.

Faster R-CNN Architecture

The Faster R-CNN utilizes is a two-stage deep learning object detector: first, it identifies regions of interest and then passes these regions to a convolutional neural network. The outputted feature maps are passed to a support vector machine (SVM) for classification. Regression between predicted bounding boxes and ground truth bounding boxes is computed. Below is the general architecture for the Faster R-CNN:

Faster R-CNN

Further Reading

Training a TensorFlow Faster R-CNN Object Detection Model on Your Own Dataset: https://blog.roboflow.com/training-a-tensorflow-faster-r-cnn-object-detection-model-on-your-own-dataset/

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Faster R-CNN Annotation Format

Faster R-CNN

uses the

Tensorflow TFRecord

annotation format. If your annotation is in a different format, you can use Roboflow's annotation conversion tools to get your data into the right format.

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