Part 1: Train your model

A custom vision model

Create the project

A project is a custom vision model. It’s used to label images with the appropriate tag (or category), and perform the training. Let’s start by creating a project.

1. Navigate to Custom Vision and sign in
2. Select New Project
3. Enter Dog Classification for the project name
4. Next to Resource, select the key you created earlier, which will use the name you created during the setup.
5. For Project Types select Classification
6. For Classification Types select Multiclass, as our dogs will only have one breed
7. For Domains select General [A2]
8. Select Create project

Upload images

Once the project is created it’s time to upload images. These images are used to train the model.

Tip: As a general rule, the more images you can use to train a model the better. You want to include as much variety in the images as possible, including different lighting, angles, and settings.

1. Select Add images
2. Navigate to training-images
3. Select all the images marked as american-staffordshire-terrier in the folder, and select Open
4. Enter american-staffordshire-terrier for the tag and select Upload 8 files
5. Select Done
6. Repeat the above steps for the remaining breeds:
   • australian-shepherd
   • buggle
   • german-wirehaired-pointer
   • shorkie
7. Select Train to open the training dialog
8. Leave Quick Training selected and select Train to begin the training process

Note: Training the model will take a couple of minutes.

Summary

Congratulations! You have trained up a custom vision model which can detect dog types. Next you’ll test and use the model.