diff --git a/src/components/MachineLearning/MLFileDebugView.tsx b/src/components/MachineLearning/MLFileDebugView.tsx
index 3553b755b..ba809d27c 100644
--- a/src/components/MachineLearning/MLFileDebugView.tsx
+++ b/src/components/MachineLearning/MLFileDebugView.tsx
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ export default function MLFileDebugView(props: MLFileDebugViewProps) {
 
             const objectDetections = await ssdMobileNetV2Service.detectObjects(
                 imageBitmap,
+                DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_CONFIG.objectDetection.maxNumBoxes,
                 DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_CONFIG.objectDetection.minScore
             );
             console.log('detectedObjects: ', objectDetections);
diff --git a/src/constants/machineLearning/config.ts b/src/constants/machineLearning/config.ts
index d6572c8d6..601af2729 100644
--- a/src/constants/machineLearning/config.ts
+++ b/src/constants/machineLearning/config.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_ML_SYNC_CONFIG: MLSyncConfig = {
     },
     objectDetection: {
         method: 'SSDMobileNetV2',
+        maxNumBoxes: 20,
         minScore: 0.2,
     },
     textDetection: {
diff --git a/src/services/machineLearning/objectService.ts b/src/services/machineLearning/objectService.ts
index 14286d7c1..667b1acf7 100644
--- a/src/services/machineLearning/objectService.ts
+++ b/src/services/machineLearning/objectService.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class ObjectService {
         const objectDetections =
             await syncContext.objectDetectionService.detectObjects(
                 imageBitmap,
+                syncContext.config.objectDetection.maxNumBoxes,
                 syncContext.config.objectDetection.minScore
             );
         // console.log('3 TF Memory stats: ', tf.memory());
diff --git a/src/services/machineLearning/ssdMobileNetV2Service.ts b/src/services/machineLearning/ssdMobileNetV2Service.ts
index 4371256bf..c8272ecc9 100644
--- a/src/services/machineLearning/ssdMobileNetV2Service.ts
+++ b/src/services/machineLearning/ssdMobileNetV2Service.ts
@@ -42,13 +42,14 @@ class SSDMobileNetV2 implements ObjectDetectionService {
 
     public async detectObjects(
         image: ImageBitmap,
-        minScore?: number
+        maxNumberBoxes: number,
+        minScore: number
     ): Promise<ObjectDetection[]> {
         const ssdMobileNetV2Model = await this.getSSDMobileNetV2Model();
         const tfImage = tf.browser.fromPixels(image);
         const detections = await ssdMobileNetV2Model.detect(
             tfImage,
-            undefined,
+            maxNumberBoxes,
             minScore
         );
         return detections;
diff --git a/src/types/machineLearning/index.ts b/src/types/machineLearning/index.ts
index 4d1d8e801..a44e02192 100644
--- a/src/types/machineLearning/index.ts
+++ b/src/types/machineLearning/index.ts
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ export interface FaceDetectionConfig {
 
 export interface ObjectDetectionConfig {
     method: ObjectDetectionMethod;
+    maxNumBoxes: number;
     minScore: number;
 }
 
@@ -386,7 +387,8 @@ export interface ObjectDetectionService {
     // init(): Promise<void>;
     detectObjects(
         image: ImageBitmap,
-        minScore?: number
+        maxNumBoxes: number,
+        minScore: number
     ): Promise<ObjectDetection[]>;
     dispose(): Promise<void>;
 }