Object Detection API installation

Question

I am trying to setup tensorflow object detection, and I'm following this video.The video refers to this website.

I have successfully cloned Tensorflow Garden and Coco API I have also successfully installed ProtoBuff and added it to the path. For Object_detection API,the website says to run cp object_detection/packages/tf2/setup.py . and python -m pip install .

But when I run python -m pip install . , I get the following error

 _DeprecatedConfig: Deprecated config in `setup.cfg`
  !!

          ********************************************************************************
          The license_file parameter is deprecated, use license_files instead.

          By 2023-Oct-30, you need to update your project and remove deprecated calls
          or your builds will no longer be supported.

          See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html for details.
          ********************************************************************************

  !!

What should I do ? I am new to this.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '23 at 09:20

I found the solution.

First, downgrade setup tools using pip install setuptools==58.2.0
On running python -m pip install ., if you get an error while installing Pyyaml, run pip install pyyaml==5.3.1
On again running python -m pip install ., it should run BUT you can get this

pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.

Ignore, the above warnings for now, and go ahead with the tutorial given by the website by running this python object_detection/builders/model_builder_tf2_test.py
You may get an error saying

cannot import name 'builder' from 'google.protobuf.internal'

To resolve this, follow this answer.
Run python -m pip install ., instead of installing Protobuff.
You should still get warnings, Ignore them.
Run python object_detection/builders/model_builder_tf2_test.py.

Hopefully, this should setup everything, without any issues.

Object Detection API installation

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