Tensorflow object detection API not displaying global steps

Add tf.logging.set_verbosity(tf.logging.INFO) after the import section of the model_main.py script. It will display a summary after every 100th step.

As Thommy257 suggested, adding tf.logging.set_verbosity(tf.logging.INFO) after the import section of model_main.py prints the summary after every 100 steps by default.

Further, to specify the frequency of the summary, change

config = tf.estimator.RunConfig(model_dir=FLAGS.model_dir)

to

config = tf.estimator.RunConfig(model_dir=FLAGS.model_dir, log_step_count_steps=k)

where it will print after every k steps.