Can object detection models trained online using automl be exportet?

Question

I am trying to export a model i trained using the Gcloud AutoML Object Detection feature. The model trained online no problem, but I now would like to deploy this onto a different device.

I found the following documentation to export the model: https://cloud.google.com/vision/automl/docs/deploy#export-example-cli

However, when doing this with my object detection model I get the error: Unsupported model export format [tf_saved_model] for model [MODELID]

Could it be that object detection models can't be exportet?

Answer 1

Although there are Edge models on Cloud AutoML Vision (classification) which can be exported, the Cloud-hosted (online) custom models can't be exported neither on Vision (classification) nor Vision Object Detection. Additionally, AutoML Vision for object detection only provides cloud-hosted models at the present time, so you can't create exportable Edge models.

There's an ongoing feature request to allow to export models from AutoML Vision. This tracker covers both AutoML Vision Classification and Object Detection.