Using Tensorflow object detection API to detect objects and classify objects by color - tensorflow

I am able to use Tensorflow to train the model on my own dataset. For example, I have trained a model to only detect the safety helmet and the result is good.
My plan for next step is to classify the identified safety helmet by colors. But I still in search of methods.
I am wondering should I retrain the model with different label map like: [item1 red_helmet] [item2 blue_helmet] and label my training dataset respectively? Or is there any other tricky way to achieve the same outcome?

You already have the region of interest in the picture.
All you need is extract the helmets from the picture and pass the cropped images to openCV routine that can detect colours.
Thats it, you are done :)

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Image Detection & Classification - general approach?

I'm trying to build a detection + classification model that will recognize an object in an image and classify it. Every image will contain at most 1 object among my 10 classes (i.e. same image cannot contains 2 classes). An image can, however, contain none of my classes/objects. I'm struggling with the general approach to this problem, especially due to the nature of my problem; my objects have different sizes. This is what I have tried:
Trained a classifier with images that only contains my objects/classes, i.e. every image is the object itself with background pre-removed. Now, since the objects/images have different shapes (aspect ratios) I had to reshape the images to the same size (destroying the aspect ratios). This would work just fine if my purpose was to only build a classifier, but since I also need to detect the objects, this didn't work so good.
The second approach was similar to (1), except that I didn't reshape the objects naively, but kept the aspect ratios by padding the image with 0 (black). This completely destroyed my classifiers ability to perform well (accuracy < 5%).
Mask RCNN - I followed this blogpost to try build a detector + classifier in the same model. The approach took forever and I wasn't sure it was the right approach. I even used external tools (RectLabel) to generate annotated image files containing information about the bounding boxes.
Question:
How should I approach this problem, on a general level:
Should I build 2 separate models? (One for detection/localization and one for classification?)
Should I be annotating my images using annotations file as in approach (3)?
Do I have to reshape my images at any stage?
Thanks,
PS. In all of my approaches, I augmented the images to generate ~500-1000 images per class.
To answer your questions:
No, you don't have to build two separate models. What you are describing is called Object detection, which is classification along with localization. There are many models which do this: Mask_RCNN, Yolo, Detectron, SSD, etc..
Yes, you do need to annotate your images for training a model for your custom classes. Each of the models mentioned above has needs a different way of annotation.
No, you don't need to do any image resizing. Most of the time it is done when the model loads the data for training or inference.
You are on the right track with trying MaskRCNN.
Other than MaskRCNN, you could also try Yolo. There is also an accompanying easy-to-use annotating tool Yolo-Mark.
If you go through this tutorial, you would understand what you care about.
How to train your own Object Detector with TensorFlow’s Object Detector API
The SSD model is small so that it would not take so much time for training.
There are some object detection models.
On RectLabel, you can save bounding boxes in the PASCAL VOC format.
You can export TFRecord for Tensorflow.
https://rectlabel.com/help#tf_record

Using Lidar images and Camera images to perform object detection

I obtain depth & reflectance maps from Lidar (2D images) and I have also camera images (2D images). Image have the same size.
I want to use CNN to perform object detection using both images. It is a sort of "fusion CNN"
How am I suppose to do it? Did I am suppose to use a pre-train model? But the is no pre-train model using lidar images..
Which is the best CNN algorithm to do it? ie for performing fusion of modalities for object detection
Thanks you in advance
Did I am suppose to use a pre-train model?
Yes you should, unless you are super confident that you can find a working model directly by urself.
But the is no pre-train model using lidar image
First I`m pretty sure there are LIDAR based network .e.g
L Caltagirone , LIDAR-Camera Fusion for Road Detection Using Fully
Convolutional ... arxiv, ‎2018
Second, even if there is no open source implementation for direct LIDAR-based, You can always convert the LIDAR to the depth image. For Depth image based CNN, there are hundreds of implementation for segmentation and detection.
How am I suppose to do it?
First, you can place them side by side parallel, for RGB and depth/LIDAR 3d pointcloud. Feed them separately
Second, you can also combine them by merging the input to 4D tensor and transfer the initial weight to the single model. At last perform transfer learning in your given dataset.
best CNN algorithm?
Totally depends on your task and hardware. Do you need best in processing speed or best in accuracy? Define your "best", please.
ALso Are you using it for autonomous car or for in-house nurse care system? different CNN system customizes the weight for different purposes.
Generally, for real-time multiple object detection using a cheap PC e.g DJI manifold, I would suggest Yolo-tiny

retrain model when I am only interested of a subcategory of the existing classes

I want to use a trained model form the tensorflow object detection API, specifically I want to use faster_rcnn_inception_resnet_v2_atrous_oid_v4 trained on google open imaged. I am not interested in detecting all the 601 classes, but rather would like to detect 10 subclasses. Will I gain improvement in accuracy if I retain the last layer or is it better to filter the layers I am not interested after the model is done with prediction. If I went with retaining, is it ok to retain the model with images form google open images again or it is better to use different data.
This official example seems to help you.

Ignore some class in train

I'm using tensor-flow models object detection for my use case, and I have some boxes/classes that I would like to ignore in the training process because the quality of them is not the best.
I don't want to delete the boxes area with black rectangle because that will change the image
and I don't want them to be a Negative example in the training process
Is there an easy way to do that?
I'm using tensorflow models object detection faster-RCNN implementation with PASCAL VOC data presentation

deep learning for shape localization and recognition

There is a set of images, each of which contains different shape entities, such as shown in the following figure. I am trying to localize and recognize these different shapes. For instance, adding a bounding box for each different shape and maybe even label it. What are the major research papers/deep learning models that have been able to solve this kind of problem?
Object detection papers such as rcnn, faster rcnn, yolo and ssd would help you solve this if you were bent on using a deep learning approach.
It’s easy to say this is a trivial problem that can be solved with tools in OpenCV and deep learning is overkill, but I can see many reasons to use deep learning tools and that does not answer your question.
We assume that your shapes has different scales and rotations. Actually your main image shown above is very large for training process and it needs a lot of training samples to generate a good accuracy at the end on test samples. In this case it is better to train a Convolutional Neural Network on a short images (like 128x128) with only one shape per each image and then use slide trick!
This project will have three main steps:
Generate test and train samples, each image should have only one shape
Train a classifier to recognize a single shape within each input image
Use slide trick! Break your original image containing many shapes to overlapping blocks of size 128x128. Pass each block to your model trained in the second step.
In this way at the end you will have label for each shape from your trained model, and also you will have location of each shape using slide trick.
For the classifier you can use exactly CNN structure of Tensorflow's MNIST tutorial.
Here is a paper with exactly same method applied to finger print images to extract local features.
A direct fingerprint minutiae extraction approach based on convolutional neural networks