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YOLOv8 🚀 NEW

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Ultralytics YOLOv8 🚀, our NEW cutting-edge, state-of-the-art (SOTA) model released at https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics. YOLOv8 is designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of object detection, image segmentation and image classification tasks.

See the YOLOv8 Docs for details and get started with:

pip install ultralytics

Documentation

See the YOLOv3 Docs for full documentation on training, testing and deployment. See below for quickstart examples.

Install

Clone repo and install requirements.txt in a Python>=3.7.0 environment, including PyTorch>=1.7.

git clone https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3  # clone
cd yolov3
pip install -r requirements.txt  # install

Inference

YOLOv3 PyTorch Hub inference. Models download automatically from the latest YOLOv3 release.

import torch

# Model
model = torch.hub.load("ultralytics/yolov3", "yolov3")  # or yolov5n - yolov5x6, custom

# Images
img = "https://ultralytics.com/images/zidane.jpg"  # or file, Path, PIL, OpenCV, numpy, list

# Inference
results = model(img)

# Results
results.print()  # or .show(), .save(), .crop(), .pandas(), etc.

Inference with detect.py

detect.py runs inference on a variety of sources, downloading models automatically from the latest YOLOv3 release and saving results to runs/detect.

python detect.py --weights yolov5s.pt --source 0                               # webcam
                                               img.jpg                         # image
                                               vid.mp4                         # video
                                               screen                          # screenshot
                                               path/                           # directory
                                               list.txt                        # list of images
                                               list.streams                    # list of streams
                                               'path/*.jpg'                    # glob
                                               'https://youtu.be/LNwODJXcvt4'  # YouTube
                                               'rtsp://example.com/media.mp4'  # RTSP, RTMP, HTTP stream

Training

The commands below reproduce YOLOv3 COCO results. Models and datasets download automatically from the latest YOLOv3 release. Training times for YOLOv5n/s/m/l/x are 1/2/4/6/8 days on a V100 GPU (Multi-GPU times faster). Use the largest --batch-size possible, or pass --batch-size -1 for YOLOv3 AutoBatch. Batch sizes shown for V100-16GB.

python train.py --data coco.yaml --epochs 300 --weights '' --cfg yolov5n.yaml  --batch-size 128
                                                                 yolov5s                    64
                                                                 yolov5m                    40
                                                                 yolov5l                    24
                                                                 yolov5x                    16

Tutorials

Train Custom Data 🚀 RECOMMENDED
Tips for Best Training Results ☘️
Multi-GPU Training
PyTorch Hub 🌟 NEW
TFLite, ONNX, CoreML, TensorRT Export 🚀
NVIDIA Jetson platform Deployment 🌟 NEW
Test-Time Augmentation (TTA)
Model Ensembling
Model Pruning/Sparsity
Hyperparameter Evolution
Transfer Learning with Frozen Layers
Architecture Summary 🌟 NEW
Roboflow for Datasets, Labeling, and Active Learning
ClearML Logging 🌟 NEW
YOLOv5 with Neural Magic's Deepsparse 🌟 NEW
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Integrations

Roboflow	ClearML ⭐ NEW	Comet ⭐ NEW	Neural Magic ⭐ NEW
Label and export your custom datasets directly to YOLOv3 for training with Roboflow	Automatically track, visualize and even remotely train YOLOv3 using ClearML (open-source!)	Free forever, Comet lets you save YOLOv3 models, resume training, and interactively visualise and debug predictions	Run YOLOv3 inference up to 6x faster with Neural Magic DeepSparse

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Why YOLOv3

YOLOv3 has been designed to be super easy to get started and simple to learn. We prioritize real-world results.

YOLOv3-P5 640 Figure

Figure Notes

COCO AP val denotes mAP@0.5:0.95 metric measured on the 5000-image COCO val2017 dataset over various inference sizes from 256 to 1536.
GPU Speed measures average inference time per image on COCO val2017 dataset using a AWS p3.2xlarge V100 instance at batch-size 32.
EfficientDet data from google/automl at batch size 8.
Reproduce by python val.py --task study --data coco.yaml --iou 0.7 --weights yolov5n6.pt yolov5s6.pt yolov5m6.pt yolov5l6.pt yolov5x6.pt

Pretrained Checkpoints

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^val 50-95	mAP^val 50	Speed ^{CPU b1 (ms)}	Speed ^{V100 b1 (ms)}	Speed ^{V100 b32 (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^{@640 (B)}
YOLOv5n	640	28.0	45.7	45	6.3	0.6	1.9	4.5
YOLOv5s	640	37.4	56.8	98	6.4	0.9	7.2	16.5
YOLOv5m	640	45.4	64.1	224	8.2	1.7	21.2	49.0
YOLOv5l	640	49.0	67.3	430	10.1	2.7	46.5	109.1
YOLOv5x	640	50.7	68.9	766	12.1	4.8	86.7	205.7

YOLOv5n6	1280	36.0	54.4	153	8.1	2.1	3.2	4.6
YOLOv5s6	1280	44.8	63.7	385	8.2	3.6	12.6	16.8
YOLOv5m6	1280	51.3	69.3	887	11.1	6.8	35.7	50.0
YOLOv5l6	1280	53.7	71.3	1784	15.8	10.5	76.8	111.4
YOLOv5x6 + TTA	1280 1536	55.0 55.8	72.7 72.7	3136 -	26.2 -	19.4 -	140.7 -	209.8 -

Table Notes

All checkpoints are trained to 300 epochs with default settings. Nano and Small models use hyp.scratch-low.yaml hyps, all others use hyp.scratch-high.yaml.
mAP^val values are for single-model single-scale on COCO val2017 dataset.
Reproduce by python val.py --data coco.yaml --img 640 --conf 0.001 --iou 0.65
Speed averaged over COCO val images using a AWS p3.2xlarge instance. NMS times (~1 ms/img) not included.
Reproduce by python val.py --data coco.yaml --img 640 --task speed --batch 1
TTA Test Time Augmentation includes reflection and scale augmentations.
Reproduce by python val.py --data coco.yaml --img 1536 --iou 0.7 --augment

Segmentation

Our new YOLOv5 release v7.0 instance segmentation models are the fastest and most accurate in the world, beating all current SOTA benchmarks. We've made them super simple to train, validate and deploy. See full details in our Release Notes and visit our YOLOv5 Segmentation Colab Notebook for quickstart tutorials.

Segmentation Checkpoints

We trained YOLOv5 segmentations models on COCO for 300 epochs at image size 640 using A100 GPUs. We exported all models to ONNX FP32 for CPU speed tests and to TensorRT FP16 for GPU speed tests. We ran all speed tests on Google Colab Pro notebooks for easy reproducibility.

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^box 50-95	mAP^mask 50-95	Train time ^{300 epochs A100 (hours)}	Speed ^{ONNX CPU (ms)}	Speed ^{TRT A100 (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^{@640 (B)}
YOLOv5n-seg	640	27.6	23.4	80:17	62.7	1.2	2.0	7.1
YOLOv5s-seg	640	37.6	31.7	88:16	173.3	1.4	7.6	26.4
YOLOv5m-seg	640	45.0	37.1	108:36	427.0	2.2	22.0	70.8
YOLOv5l-seg	640	49.0	39.9	66:43 (2x)	857.4	2.9	47.9	147.7
YOLOv5x-seg	640	50.7	41.4	62:56 (3x)	1579.2	4.5	88.8	265.7

All checkpoints are trained to 300 epochs with SGD optimizer with lr0=0.01 and weight_decay=5e-5 at image size 640 and all default settings.
Runs logged to https://wandb.ai/glenn-jocher/YOLOv5_v70_official
Accuracy values are for single-model single-scale on COCO dataset.
Reproduce by python segment/val.py --data coco.yaml --weights yolov5s-seg.pt
Speed averaged over 100 inference images using a Colab Pro A100 High-RAM instance. Values indicate inference speed only (NMS adds about 1ms per image).
Reproduce by python segment/val.py --data coco.yaml --weights yolov5s-seg.pt --batch 1
Export to ONNX at FP32 and TensorRT at FP16 done with export.py.
Reproduce by python export.py --weights yolov5s-seg.pt --include engine --device 0 --half

Segmentation Usage Examples

Train

YOLOv5 segmentation training supports auto-download COCO128-seg segmentation dataset with --data coco128-seg.yaml argument and manual download of COCO-segments dataset with bash data/scripts/get_coco.sh --train --val --segments and then python train.py --data coco.yaml.

# Single-GPU
python segment/train.py --data coco128-seg.yaml --weights yolov5s-seg.pt --img 640

# Multi-GPU DDP
python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node 4 --master_port 1 segment/train.py --data coco128-seg.yaml --weights yolov5s-seg.pt --img 640 --device 0,1,2,3

Val

Validate YOLOv5s-seg mask mAP on COCO dataset:

bash data/scripts/get_coco.sh --val --segments  # download COCO val segments split (780MB, 5000 images)
python segment/val.py --weights yolov5s-seg.pt --data coco.yaml --img 640  # validate

Predict

Use pretrained YOLOv5m-seg.pt to predict bus.jpg:

python segment/predict.py --weights yolov5m-seg.pt --data data/images/bus.jpg

model = torch.hub.load(
    "ultralytics/yolov5", "custom", "yolov5m-seg.pt"
)  # load from PyTorch Hub (WARNING: inference not yet supported)

Export

Export YOLOv5s-seg model to ONNX and TensorRT:

python export.py --weights yolov5s-seg.pt --include onnx engine --img 640 --device 0

Classification

YOLOv5 release v6.2 brings support for classification model training, validation and deployment! See full details in our Release Notes and visit our YOLOv5 Classification Colab Notebook for quickstart tutorials.

Classification Checkpoints

We trained YOLOv5-cls classification models on ImageNet for 90 epochs using a 4xA100 instance, and we trained ResNet and EfficientNet models alongside with the same default training settings to compare. We exported all models to ONNX FP32 for CPU speed tests and to TensorRT FP16 for GPU speed tests. We ran all speed tests on Google Colab Pro for easy reproducibility.

Model	size ^(pixels)	acc ^top1	acc ^top5	Training ^{90 epochs 4xA100 (hours)}	Speed ^{ONNX CPU (ms)}	Speed ^{TensorRT V100 (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^{@224 (B)}
YOLOv5n-cls	224	64.6	85.4	7:59	3.3	0.5	2.5	0.5
YOLOv5s-cls	224	71.5	90.2	8:09	6.6	0.6	5.4	1.4
YOLOv5m-cls	224	75.9	92.9	10:06	15.5	0.9	12.9	3.9
YOLOv5l-cls	224	78.0	94.0	11:56	26.9	1.4	26.5	8.5
YOLOv5x-cls	224	79.0	94.4	15:04	54.3	1.8	48.1	15.9

ResNet18	224	70.3	89.5	6:47	11.2	0.5	11.7	3.7
ResNet34	224	73.9	91.8	8:33	20.6	0.9	21.8	7.4
ResNet50	224	76.8	93.4	11:10	23.4	1.0	25.6	8.5
ResNet101	224	78.5	94.3	17:10	42.1	1.9	44.5	15.9

EfficientNet_b0	224	75.1	92.4	13:03	12.5	1.3	5.3	1.0
EfficientNet_b1	224	76.4	93.2	17:04	14.9	1.6	7.8	1.5
EfficientNet_b2	224	76.6	93.4	17:10	15.9	1.6	9.1	1.7
EfficientNet_b3	224	77.7	94.0	19:19	18.9	1.9	12.2	2.4

Table Notes (click to expand)

All checkpoints are trained to 90 epochs with SGD optimizer with lr0=0.001 and weight_decay=5e-5 at image size 224 and all default settings.
Runs logged to https://wandb.ai/glenn-jocher/YOLOv5-Classifier-v6-2
Accuracy values are for single-model single-scale on ImageNet-1k dataset.
Reproduce by python classify/val.py --data ../datasets/imagenet --img 224
Speed averaged over 100 inference images using a Google Colab Pro V100 High-RAM instance.
Reproduce by python classify/val.py --data ../datasets/imagenet --img 224 --batch 1
Export to ONNX at FP32 and TensorRT at FP16 done with export.py.
Reproduce by python export.py --weights yolov5s-cls.pt --include engine onnx --imgsz 224

Classification Usage Examples

Train

YOLOv5 classification training supports auto-download of MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, CIFAR10, CIFAR100, Imagenette, Imagewoof, and ImageNet datasets with the --data argument. To start training on MNIST for example use --data mnist.

# Single-GPU
python classify/train.py --model yolov5s-cls.pt --data cifar100 --epochs 5 --img 224 --batch 128

# Multi-GPU DDP
python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node 4 --master_port 1 classify/train.py --model yolov5s-cls.pt --data imagenet --epochs 5 --img 224 --device 0,1,2,3

Val

Validate YOLOv5m-cls accuracy on ImageNet-1k dataset:

bash data/scripts/get_imagenet.sh --val  # download ImageNet val split (6.3G, 50000 images)
python classify/val.py --weights yolov5m-cls.pt --data ../datasets/imagenet --img 224  # validate

Predict

Use pretrained YOLOv5s-cls.pt to predict bus.jpg:

python classify/predict.py --weights yolov5s-cls.pt --data data/images/bus.jpg

model = torch.hub.load("ultralytics/yolov5", "custom", "yolov5s-cls.pt")  # load from PyTorch Hub

Export

Export a group of trained YOLOv5s-cls, ResNet and EfficientNet models to ONNX and TensorRT:

python export.py --weights yolov5s-cls.pt resnet50.pt efficientnet_b0.pt --include onnx engine --img 224

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Contribute

We love your input! We want to make contributing to YOLOv3 as easy and transparent as possible. Please see our Contributing Guide to get started, and fill out the YOLOv3 Survey to send us feedback on your experiences. Thank you to all our contributors!

License

Ultralytics offers two licensing options to accommodate diverse use cases:

AGPL-3.0 License: This OSI-approved open-source license is ideal for students and enthusiasts, promoting open collaboration and knowledge sharing. See the LICENSE file for more details.
Enterprise License: Designed for commercial use, this license permits seamless integration of Ultralytics software and AI models into commercial goods and services, bypassing the open-source requirements of AGPL-3.0. If your scenario involves embedding our solutions into a commercial offering, reach out through Ultralytics Licensing.

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