Retraining on Colab

If your computer does not have an NVIDIA GPU that supports hardware acceleration of Tensorflow, traiing on your machine can be very slow. You have 2 options:

 

1) Train in the Cloud: this unfortunately is not free

2) Train in Colab: currently you can create GPU Colabs free. Google Colab is a Virtual Machine Environment you can use to create and run Colab (python based) Notebooks that can be used with Tensorflow to perform tasks like Data Preperation/Preprocessing, Training and Testing.

 

 

How to Train in CoLab:


Example Colab Notebook for Object Detection (api) developed on TF2 (DOWNLOAD it and then use it as a base to make a Google Colab in YOUR horizon.csueastbay.edu Google account)