Error: object_detection.utils ModuleNotFoundError

Question

I'm following this tutorial ( https://towardsdatascience.com/creating-your-own-object-detector-ad69dda69c85 ) to create my own object detector.

On the topic 'Generating TFRecords for training', whe i try run this code:

python generate_tfrecord.py --csv_input=images\train_labels.csv --image_dir=images\train --output_path=train.record

I got this error:

[...]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "generate_tfrecord.py", line 20, in <module>
    from object_detection.utils import dataset_util
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'object_detection'

My folder structure:

-generate_tfrecord.py
-images/
--test_labels.csv
--train_labels.csv
--test/
---*files*
--train/
---*files*

Answer 1

Check this:

1. git clone

   https://github.com/tensorflow/models

2. Go to folder "research". Open terminal: cd models-master/research

3. (for 3.6python) python3.6 setup.py build

   (for 3.6python) sudo python3.6 setup.py install

4. You'll see: " Finished processing dependencies for object-detection==0.1 "

Then do the follwing

Add Libraries to PYTHONPATH

When running locally, the tensorflow/models/research/ and slim directories should be appended to PYTHONPATH. This can be done by running the following from tensorflow/models/research/:

From tensorflow/models/research/

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH: pwd : pwd /slim

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