training_yolo.md

Training YOLO for your Own Custom Object

Generate a Dataset

In this tutorial I will be using the gazebo sim we have used in the previous tutorials and saving the footage from the drone's camera

launch sim

roslaunch iq_sim runway.launch 

./startsitl.sh

fly the drone around the sim

and run image saver to generate your dataset

rosrun image_view image_saver image:/webcam/image_raw

Annotate dataset

use labelImg https://github.com/tzutalin/labelImg

• follow instructions on readme

Train YOLO

use AlexeyAB's darknet repo https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

• follow instructions on readme

Setup darknet ROS

follow my tutorial

https://github.com/Intelligent-Quads/iq_tutorials/blob/master/intro_to_yolo.md