Added reference to the Computer Vision Best Practices repository

[PatrickBue]

The Computer Vision Best Practices repository (2,500 stars on Github, by Microsoft) implements various notebooks which are helpful for somebody who wants to use Torchvision for object detection.

Currently, the references folder lacks a bit with regards to e.g. explanations or being beginner-friendly, hence proposing this PR. Not sure what Tochvision's policy in this regard is.

Note that the CV repository only adds functionality and explanations on top of the original torchvision code. See the url below, which contains a un-edited copy of Torchvision's "references/detection/" folder:
https://github.com/microsoft/computervision-recipes/tree/master/utils_cv/detection/references

[jspisak]

Hi Patrick,
Thanks for the PR and really appreciate you and the MSFT team supporting and promoting torchvision! In the case of this repo, we are a bit worried about trying to keep things cloud neutral and adding this could send the message to others to add their pages as well. A few possible things we can do:

1. We have some links and getting started for Azure on pytorch.org (https://pytorch.org/) where we might think about something more general; or

2. We have a medium/pytorch channel where we could do a joint blog that we could promote on the pytorch social channels.

If #2 is of interest, your friend @prasanthpul knows where to find me.. :)

thanks again for the support!

[PatrickBue]

Hi Joseph, thanks for the quick reply.

• Option (2) sounds great - whom could I get in touch with for that (email)?
• Option (1), is there something I can help with or would that be fully on your end?

I understand your point regarding staying cloud neutral. Just as fyi, only the two advanced notebooks (11 and 20) require Azure, all other notebooks have no cloud-dependency or even reference to Azure whatsoever.
https://github.com/microsoft/computervision-recipes/tree/master/scenarios/detection

[jspisak]

Thanks Patrick, Let's definitely kick off #2. I am cc'ing @wookim3

Send us an email at [email protected] and [email protected] to get this going. Thanks!

[wookim3]

@PatrickBue - Nice to meet you and look forward to working with you on this.