Computer Vision Pretrained Models

A pre-trained model is a model created by someone else to solve a similar problem. Instead of building a model from scratch to solve a similar problem, we can use the model trained on other problem as a starting point. A pre-trained model may not be 100% accurate in your application. For example, if you want to build a self-learning car. You can spend years building a decent image recognition algorithm from scratch or you can take the inception model (a pre-trained model) from Google which was built on ImageNet data to identify images in those pictures. The model generates bounding boxes and segmentation masks for each instance of an object in the image. It's based on Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) and a ResNet101 backbone. TensorFlow implementation of 'YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection', with training and an actual support for real-time running on mobile devices. MobileNets trade off between latency, size and accuracy while comparing favorably with popular models from the literature.