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14th November 2017 - Link Blog

How to train your own Object Detector with TensorFlow’s Object Detector API (via) Dat Tran built a TensorFlow model that can detect raccoons! Impressive results, especially given it was only trained on 200 raccoon images from Google Image search.

Posted 14th November 2017 at 4:24 am

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