Week 8: Labelling dataset
This week, we kept polishing the detail of our SSD model for object detection. For test purposes, we did not use large dataset but using the pictures that we downloaded from google image. We utilized the google_image_download API which can help us download the image with key words. We can download maximum 100 pictures at a time. After downloading the pictures, we deleted the unwanted pictures such as wrong file types or wrong objects in the image. This week, we only download a few hundreds of images of cellphones and desks/tables, because we need eventually identify where the object will be. For instance, "a cellphone is on the table." The picture labelling process is very time consuming. We need to label each pictures and save an annotation xml file associated with the original pictures.