Get the bounding box coordinates in the TensorFlow object detection API tutorial

Question

I am new to both python and Tensorflow. I am trying to run the object_detection_tutorial file from the Tensorflow Object Detection API, but I cannot find where I can get the coo

Answer 1

I tried printing output_dict['detection_boxes'] but I am not sure what the numbers mean

You can check out the code for yourself. visualize_boxes_and_labels_on_image_array is defined here.

Note that you are passing use_normalized_coordinates=True. If you trace the function calls, you will see your numbers [ 0.56213236, 0.2780568 , 0.91445708, 0.69120586] etc. are the values [ymin, xmin, ymax, xmax] where the image coordinates:

(left, right, top, bottom) = (xmin * im_width, xmax * im_width, 
                              ymin * im_height, ymax * im_height)

are computed by the function:

def draw_bounding_box_on_image(image,
                           ymin,
                           xmin,
                           ymax,
                           xmax,
                           color='red',
                           thickness=4,
                           display_str_list=(),
                           use_normalized_coordinates=True):
  """Adds a bounding box to an image.
  Bounding box coordinates can be specified in either absolute (pixel) or
  normalized coordinates by setting the use_normalized_coordinates argument.
  Each string in display_str_list is displayed on a separate line above the
  bounding box in black text on a rectangle filled with the input 'color'.
  If the top of the bounding box extends to the edge of the image, the strings
  are displayed below the bounding box.
  Args:
    image: a PIL.Image object.
    ymin: ymin of bounding box.
    xmin: xmin of bounding box.
    ymax: ymax of bounding box.
    xmax: xmax of bounding box.
    color: color to draw bounding box. Default is red.
    thickness: line thickness. Default value is 4.
    display_str_list: list of strings to display in box
                      (each to be shown on its own line).
    use_normalized_coordinates: If True (default), treat coordinates
      ymin, xmin, ymax, xmax as relative to the image.  Otherwise treat
      coordinates as absolute.
  """
  draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
  im_width, im_height = image.size
  if use_normalized_coordinates:
    (left, right, top, bottom) = (xmin * im_width, xmax * im_width,
                                  ymin * im_height, ymax * im_height)