diff --git a/imageai/Detection/Custom/__init__.py b/imageai/Detection/Custom/__init__.py
index 50c4931b..aa11401a 100644
--- a/imageai/Detection/Custom/__init__.py
+++ b/imageai/Detection/Custom/__init__.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 from imageai.Detection.Custom.utils.multi_gpu_model import multi_gpu_model
 from imageai.Detection.Custom.gen_anchors import generateAnchors
 import tensorflow as tf
+from tensorflow.python.keras.backend import set_session
 from keras.models import load_model, Input
 from keras.callbacks import TensorBoard
 import keras.backend as K
@@ -594,6 +595,8 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.__input_size = 416
         self.__object_threshold = 0.4
         self.__nms_threshold = 0.4
+        self.__session = None
+        self.__graph = None
         self.__model = None
         self.__detection_utils = CustomDetectionUtils(labels=[])
 
@@ -621,7 +624,7 @@ def setJsonPath(self, configuration_json):
         """
         self.__detection_config_json_path = configuration_json
 
-    def loadModel(self):
+    def loadModel(self, session_config=None):
 
         """
         'loadModel' is used to load the model into the CustomObjectDetection class
@@ -636,13 +639,19 @@ def loadModel(self):
 
             self.__detection_utils = CustomDetectionUtils(labels=self.__model_labels)
 
+            self.__session = tf.compat.v1.Session(config=session_config)
+
+            self.__graph = tf.compat.v1.get_default_graph()
+
             self.__model = yolo_main(Input(shape=(None, None, 3)), 3, len(self.__model_labels))
 
+            set_session(self.__session)
+
             self.__model.load_weights(self.__model_path)
 
     def detectObjectsFromImage(self, input_image="", output_image_path="", input_type="file", output_type="file",
                                extract_detected_objects=False, minimum_percentage_probability=50, nms_treshold=0.4,
-                               display_percentage_probability=True, display_object_name=True, thread_safe=False):
+                               display_percentage_probability=True, display_object_name=True):
 
         """
 
@@ -656,7 +665,6 @@ def detectObjectsFromImage(self, input_image="", output_image_path="", input_typ
                     * nms_threshold (optional, o.45 by default) , option to set the Non-maximum suppression for the detection
                     * display_percentage_probability (optional, True by default), option to show or hide the percentage probability of each object in the saved/returned detected image
                     * display_display_object_name (optional, True by default), option to show or hide the name of each object in the saved/returned detected image
-                    * thread_safe (optional, False by default), enforce the loaded detection model works across all threads if set to true, made possible by forcing all Keras inference to run on the default graph
 
 
             The values returned by this function depends on the parameters parsed. The possible values returnable
@@ -708,7 +716,6 @@ def detectObjectsFromImage(self, input_image="", output_image_path="", input_typ
         :param nms_treshold:
         :param display_percentage_probability:
         :param display_object_name:
-        :param thread_safe:
         :return image_frame:
         :return output_objects_array:
         :return detected_objects_image_array:
@@ -763,10 +770,8 @@ def detectObjectsFromImage(self, input_image="", output_image_path="", input_typ
             image = np.expand_dims(image, 0)
 
             if self.__model_type == "yolov3":
-                if thread_safe == True:
-                    with K.get_session().graph.as_default():
-                        yolo_results = self.__model.predict(image)
-                else:
+                with self.__graph.as_default():
+                    set_session(self.__session)
                     yolo_results = self.__model.predict(image)
 
                 boxes = list()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ca4c3d44..146bc71c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-tensorflow
-keras
+tensorflow==1.14.0
+keras==2.2.5
 numpy
 pillow
 scipy
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8e1f622a..eb12026a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,13 @@
       author_email='guymodscientist@gmail.com',
       license='MIT',
       packages= find_packages(),
-      install_requires=['numpy','scipy','pillow',"matplotlib", "h5py"],
+      install_requires=['numpy',
+                        'scipy',
+                        'pillow',
+                        'matplotlib',
+                        'h5py',
+                        'tensorflow==1.14.0',
+                        'keras==2.2.5'],
       zip_safe=False
 
       )
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