Hi Sayak,
Thanks for sharing the notebook. Looks amazing. Alternatively, have you tried converting directly from PASCAL or COCO type format to TFRecords using the scripts provided in dataset tools?
I found it quite useful when your dataset is in any one of those popular format:
There is also a service called RoboFlow which allows you to directly convert any of those format to TFRecord with data-preprocessing, data split and augmentation features for free.
Here is a blog to that:
Enjoying your E2E notebooks on object detection, it was something I was also looking into for a while. Again, thanks for sharing.
Regards,