Registration unavailable: request for academic API token or offline model access

[cbcbcbcb123]

Hello DeepCell team,

I am Bo Cheng, Professor at the School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University. My lab works mainly in mechanobiology, and we are evaluating DeepCell-related segmentation workflows for academic, non-commercial microscopy image analysis.

The documented API-key route points to https://users.deepcell.org/login/ and requires a DEEPCELL_ACCESS_TOKEN, but the registration/login flow is currently unavailable for us. I also noticed several related open issues: #694, #741, #745, and #748.

Could you please advise on the recommended path for academic users?

1. Is users.deepcell.org registration still supported, and if so, how should new academic users obtain a token?
2. If registration is temporarily broken, can an API token be issued manually for academic/non-commercial use?
3. If public token issuance is no longer maintained, is there an offline model/checkpoint download route or a recommended replacement workflow for local inference?

Our immediate use case is segmentation of microscopy images in a local workflow. We would prefer offline/local inference if an appropriate model access route is available.

Thank you for your help.

Bo Cheng
Professor, School of Life Science and Technology
Xi'an Jiaotong University

[Francesco-Tagliabue]

Thanks for bringing this up, I am also encountering the same issue.

Francesco Tagliabue

[BWvanOs]

Still not fixed it seems...

[rpdesilva]

Hi i'm a PHD student from Australia. I'd love to also get manual verification and approval of my request to access the Deepcell access token so that i can run the model in a docker environment.
thank you for building this model and maintaining it

[rpdesilva]

Hi i'm a PHD student from Australia. I'd love to also get manual verification and approval of my request to access the Deepcell access token so that i can run the model in a docker environment. thank you for building this model and maintaining it

My account just got approved, thanks so much team ! really appreciate your work

[jsonchen47]

Hi, I am also wondering how I could get manual verification and approval of my request?