TensorFlow Object Detector ROS Node

A ROS node using TensorFlow Object Detection C API. This repository includes TensorFlow 1.11.0 library and works without any additional setup for TensorFlow library.

How to build?

setup ROS

see http://wiki.ros.org/Installation

setup catkin workspace

mkdir -P ~/catkin_ws/src
cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin init

clone this repository

cd ~/catkin_ws/src
git clone <repository_path>

This may take few minutes for downloading tensorflow library and models.

install prerequisite packages

Install USB camera node.

sudo apt-get install ros-<ros_distro>-usb-cam

build

catkin build

How to run?

cd ~/catkin_ws
source devel/setup.bash
roslaunch tensorflow_object_detector object_detection.launch