Using non-roboflow dataset on RF-DETR

Project Type: Finetuning RF-DETR on custom dataset

Hello everyone, I want to use the new RF-DETR model on my custom dataset. Since I cant upload dataset to roboflow for confindentiality reasons i have a question.

When I do print(dataset) from a dataset gotten from Roboflow (e.g. dataset = download_dataset(" basketball-player-detection-2 Object Detection Model (v13, 2025-07-24 8:48am) by Roboflow ", “coco”) it says this is the dataset type: roboflow.core.dataset.Dataset object at 0x79d6b5894110> and you just have to use it in the model like this:

model.train(dataset_dir=dataset.location, …)

However if I use my own dataset, can I just do the exact same thing? Even though it is not a roboflow.core.dataset?

Sorry if it is a dumb question, thank you.

Hi @Rodrigo_M!
Unfortunately, I am unable to support training runs outside of the Roboflow platform. Apologies for the inconvenience!