This repository represents Ultralytics open-source research into future object detection methods, and incorporates lessons learned and best practices evolved over thousands of hours of training and evolution on anonymized client datasets. **All code and models are under active development, and are subject to modification or deletion without notice.** Use at your own risk.
<imgsrc="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26833433/103594689-455e0e00-4eae-11eb-9cdf-7d753e2ceeeb.png"width="1000">** GPU Speed measures end-to-end time per image averaged over 5000 COCO val2017 images using a V100 GPU with batch size 32, and includes image preprocessing, PyTorch FP16 inference, postprocessing and NMS. EfficientDet data from [google/automl](https://github.com/google/automl) at batch size 8.
- **June 19, 2020**: [FP16](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.Module.half) as new default for smaller checkpoints and faster inference [d4c6674](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/commit/d4c6674c98e19df4c40e33a777610a18d1961145).
** AP<sup>test</sup> denotes COCO [test-dev2017](http://cocodataset.org/#upload) server results, all other AP results denote val2017 accuracy.
** All AP numbers are for single-model single-scale without ensemble or TTA. **Reproduce mAP** by `python test.py --data coco.yaml --img 640 --conf 0.001 --iou 0.65`
** Speed<sub>GPU</sub> averaged over 5000 COCO val2017 images using a GCP [n1-standard-16](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types#n1_standard_machine_types) V100 instance, and includes image preprocessing, FP16 inference, postprocessing and NMS. NMS is 1-2ms/img. **Reproduce speed** by `python test.py --data coco.yaml --img 640 --conf 0.25 --iou 0.45`
Python 3.8 or later with all [requirements.txt](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/master/requirements.txt) dependencies installed, including `torch>=1.7`. To install run:
YOLOv5 may be run in any of the following up-to-date verified environments (with all dependencies including [CUDA](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda)/[CUDNN](https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn), [Python](https://www.python.org/) and [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/) preinstalled):
- **Google Colab and Kaggle** notebooks with free GPU: <ahref="https://colab.research.google.com/github/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/master/tutorial.ipynb"><imgsrc="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg"alt="Open In Colab"></a><ahref="https://www.kaggle.com/ultralytics/yolov5"><imgsrc="https://kaggle.com/static/images/open-in-kaggle.svg"alt="Open In Kaggle"></a>
detect.py runs inference on a variety of sources, downloading models automatically from the [latest YOLOv5 release](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/releases) and saving results to `runs/detect`.
Run commands below to reproduce results on [COCO](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/master/data/scripts/get_coco.sh) dataset (dataset auto-downloads on first use). Training times for YOLOv5s/m/l/x are 2/4/6/8 days on a single V100 (multi-GPU times faster). Use the largest `--batch-size` your GPU allows (batch sizes shown for 16 GB devices).
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