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Question

I got problem while doing object detection using tensorflow-gpu

I was follwing the youtube tutorials :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgpfk6eYxJA

I\'m trying

Answer 1

It seems to be a problem if there is a previous installation of tensorflow available. These steps seems to solve the problem.

1) uninstalling tensorflow 2) uninstalling protobuf 3) reinstalling tensorflow (which should come along with the correct protobuf version.

Also need to go to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Anaconda3_64\Lib\site-packages

and delete all tensorflow related folders

Source : https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/20778