# yolov3
wget https://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov3.weights -O weights/yolov3.weights

# yolov3-tiny
wget https://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov3-tiny.weights -O weights/yolov3-tiny.weights

For Windows: You can download the yolov3 weights by clicking here and yolov3-tiny here then save them to the weights folder.

Load the weights using load_weights.py script. This will convert the yolov3 weights into TensorFlow .ckpt model files!

# yolov3
python load_weights.py

# yolov3-tiny
python load_weights.py --weights ./weights/yolov3-tiny.weights --output ./weights/yolov3-tiny.tf --tiny

After executing one of the above lines, you should see .tf files in your weights folder.

The tensorflow model can also be run not using the APIs but through using detect.py script.

Don't forget to set the IoU (Intersection over Union) and Confidence Thresholds within your yolov3-tf2/models.py file

Let's run an example or two using sample images found within the data/images folder.

# yolov3
python detect.py --images "data/images/dog.jpg, data/images/office.jpg"

# yolov3-tiny
python detect.py --weights ./weights/yolov3-tiny.tf --tiny --images "data/images/dog.jpg"

# webcam
python detect_video.py --video 0

# video file
python detect_video.py --video data/video/paris.mp4 --weights ./weights/yolov3-tiny.tf --tiny

# video file with output saved (can save webcam like this too)
python detect_video.py --video path_to_file.mp4 --output ./detections/output.avi

Then you can find the detections in the detections folder.

python detect_video.py --video 0