The following section lists the requirements that you need to meet in order to start training the Mask R-CNN model.

Requirements

This repository contains Dockerfile which extends the TensorFlow 2 NGC container and encapsulates some dependencies. Aside from these dependencies, ensure you have the following components:

• NVIDIA Docker
• TensorFlow 21.02 NGC container
• Supported GPUs:
• NVIDIA Volta architecture
• NVIDIA Turing architecture
• NVIDIA Ampere architecture

For more information about how to get started with NGC containers, see the following sections from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud Documentation and the Deep Learning Documentation:

• Getting Started Using NVIDIA GPU Cloud
• Accessing And Pulling From The NGC Container Registry
• Running [framework name - link to topic]

For those unable to use the TensorFlow 2 NGC container, to set up the required environment or create your own container, see the versioned NVIDIA Container Support Matrix.