Microsoft improved the object detection capabilities of its ML.NET machine learning framework for .NET developers, adding the ability to train custom models with Model Builder in Visual Studio.

Google handed a new set of intelligent object detection capabilities over to the open source community as part of continued development of its TensorFlow framework.

Learn more Members of the Google Brain team and Google AI this week open-sourced EfficientDet, an AI tool that achieves state-of-the-art object detection while using less compute.