The following instruction describes how to use the TensorFlow object detection API on Google Cloud to detect an object. In order to do that, you must have a Gmail and Google Cloud account. Depending on the region, Google Cloud can give free access for a limited time once you submit your credit card information. The exercise listed here should be covered in this free access. Follow the following steps to create a virtual machine (VM) instance in Google Cloud Console. A VM is needed to run the TensorFlow object detection API and make an inference with it:
- Log in to your Gmail account and go to https://cloud.google.com/solutions/creating-object-detection-application-tensorflow.
- Create a project as shown in the screenshot below. Here, R-CNN-trainingpack is the name of my project. Your project name will likely be different.
- Follow...
