Train Tensorflow Object Detection on own dataset

Question

After spending a couple days trying to achieve this task, I would like to share my experience of how I went about answering the question:

How do I use TS Object

Answer 1

I wrote a blog post on Medium about my experience as well on how I trained an object detector (in particular, it's a Raccoon detector) with Tensorflow on my own dataset. This might also be useful for others and is complimentary to eshirima's answer.