Match the changes with Pypi package and tensorflow.org documentation.

This release of the Official Models targets TensorFlow 2.11.0. Note that Research/tutorial/sample models have been removed.

New features:

1. MobileNetV2 backbone for Mask RCNN
2. Panoptic deeplab supported;
3. freeze_backbone supported, and many bug fixes
4. FNet and SparseMixer implementations
5. Move ViT models from projects to vision main backbone folder

Release branch is: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/r2.11

Fix open cv python 3.10 build issue. A lot of downstream clients need to build with 3.10.

What's Changed

• Remove opencv-python-headless strict version requirement by @joezoug in #10831

New Contributors

• @joezoug made their first contribution in #10831

Full Changelog: v2.10.0...v2.10.1

This release of the Official Models targets TensorFlow 2.10.0. Note that Research/tutorial/sample models have been removed.

TF versions of requirements have been updated to use the corresponding major version.

Updates:

1. MobileNetV2 backbone for Mask RCNN.
2. Panoptic deeplab supported.
3. freeze_backbone supported, and many bug fixes.

Pypi package for 2.10 cut is: https://pypi.org/project/tf-models-official/2.10.0/.

Adds a prefetch_buffer_size option to set the prefetch buffer size for input_reader instead of autotune. This resolves the issue of increasing buffer size until the CPU memory is exhausted.

Updated pip package: https://pypi.org/project/tf-models-official/2.7.2/

Fix a few import path and init problems.

We have the initial support to import the model garden libraries as:
import tensorflow_models as tfm
tfm.nlp.XXX

Pypi package for 2.9.2 cut is: https://pypi.org/project/tf-models-official/2.9.2/

Note: how the symbols are exported is defined by: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/tensorflow_models/ folder

This release of the Official Models targets TensorFlow 2.9.0. Note that Research/tutorial/sample models have been removed.

TF versions of requirements have been updated to use the corresponding major version.

Notes: official/vision/beta has been released and moved to official/vision, the beta folder is being deprecated.

Pypi package for 2.9 cut is: https://pypi.org/project/tf-models-official/2.9.0/

This release of the Official Models targets TensorFlow 2.8.0. Note that Research/tutorial/sample models have been removed.

TF versions of requirements have been updated to use the corresponding major version.

Notes: official/vision/image_classification and official/vision/detection has been moved into official/legacy/.

Fix Waymo dataset metric import.

Updated pip package: https://pypi.org/project/tf-models-official/2.7.1/

Fix vision import that accidentally we used cloud_tpu ops. The vision/beta models were broken.

46bf065

Updated pip package: https://pypi.org/project/tf-models-official/2.6.1/