Instance segmentation in code

It's now time to put the things that we've learned into practice. We'll use the COCO dataset and its API for the data, and use Facebook Research's Detectron project (link in References), which provides the Python implementation of many of the previously discussed techniques under an Apache 2.0 license. The code works with Python2 and Caffe2, so we'll need a virtual environment with the given configuration.

Creating the environment

The virtual environment, with Caffe2 installation, can be created as per the caffe2 installation instructions on the Caffe2 repository link in the References Section. Next, we will install the dependencies.

Installing Python dependencies (Python2 environment)

We can install the Python dependencies as shown in the following code block:

Note

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