Change performance metrics for TensorFlow 2 Object Detection API

Question

Where do i find the config file?

The default metrics are based on those used in Pascal VOC evaluation.

To use the COCO object detection metrics add metrics_set: "coco_detection_metrics" to the eval_config message in the config file.

To use the COCO instance segmentation metrics add metrics_set: "coco_mask_metrics" to the eval_config message in the config file.

https://tensorflow-object-detection-api-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Answer 1

If you are using a pre-trained model from the model zoo the configuration file is the pipeline.config that is in every model-archive. If you are building your own network you have to write your pipeline.config following the guidelines. So simply edit your pipeline.config adding metrics_set: "coco_detection_metrics" in the eval_config section for COCO, the same if you want PASCAL-VOC.