yolov7/README.md

# yolov7

Implementation of paper - [YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02696)

<img src="./figure/performance.png" height="480">

## Performance 

MS COCO

| Model | Test Size | AP<sup>test</sup> | AP<sub>50</sub><sup>test</sup> | AP<sub>75</sub><sup>test</sup> | batch 1 fps | batch 32 average time |
| :-- | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: |
| [**YOLOv7**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7.pt) | 640 | **51.4%** | **69.7%** | **55.9%** | 161 *fps* | 2.8 *ms* |
| [**YOLOv7-X**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7x.pt) | 640 | **53.1%** | **71.2%** | **57.8%** | 114 *fps* | 4.3 *ms* |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| [**YOLOv7-W6**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-w6.pt) | 1280 | **54.9%** | **72.6%** | **60.1%** | 84 *fps* | 7.6 *ms* |
| [**YOLOv7-E6**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-e6.pt) | 1280 | **56.0%** | **73.5%** | **61.2%** | 56 *fps* | 12.3 *ms* |
| [**YOLOv7-D6**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-d6.pt) | 1280 | **56.6%** | **74.0%** | **61.8%** | 44 *fps* | 15.0 *ms* |
| [**YOLOv7-E6E**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-e6e.pt) | 1280 | **56.8%** | **74.4%** | **62.1%** | 36 *fps* | 18.7 *ms* |

## Installation

Docker environment (recommended)
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```
# create the docker container, you can change the share memory size if you have more.
nvidia-docker run --name yolov7 -it -v your_coco_path/:/coco/ -v your_code_path/:/yolov7 --shm-size=64g nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:21.08-py3

# apt install required packages
apt update
apt install -y zip htop screen libgl1-mesa-glx

# pip install required packages
pip install seaborn thop

# go to code folder
cd /yolov7
```

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## Testing

[`yolov7.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7.pt) [`yolov7x.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7x.pt) [`yolov7-w6.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-w6.pt) [`yolov7-e6.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-e6.pt) [`yolov7-d6.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-d6.pt) [`yolov7-e6e.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/yolov7-e6e.pt)

```
python test.py --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --batch 32 --conf 0.001 --iou 0.65 --device 0 --weights yolov7.pt --name yolov7_640_val
```

You will get the results:

```
 Average Precision  (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=   all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.51206
 Average Precision  (AP) @[ IoU=0.50      | area=   all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.69730
 Average Precision  (AP) @[ IoU=0.75      | area=   all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.55521
 Average Precision  (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.35247
 Average Precision  (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.55937
 Average Precision  (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.66693
 Average Recall     (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=   all | maxDets=  1 ] = 0.38453
 Average Recall     (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=   all | maxDets= 10 ] = 0.63765
 Average Recall     (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=   all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.68772
 Average Recall     (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.53766
 Average Recall     (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.73549
 Average Recall     (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.83868
```

## Training

The training code and instrument will release soon.

## Citation

```
@article{wang2022yolov7,
  title={{YOLOv7}: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors},
  author={Wang, Chien-Yao and Bochkovskiy, Alexey and Liao, Hong-Yuan Mark},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02696},
  year={2022}
}
```

## Acknowledgements

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* [https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet)
* [https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolor](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolor)
* [https://github.com/WongKinYiu/PyTorch_YOLOv4](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/PyTorch_YOLOv4)
* [https://github.com/WongKinYiu/ScaledYOLOv4](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/ScaledYOLOv4)
* [https://github.com/Megvii-BaseDetection/YOLOX](https://github.com/Megvii-BaseDetection/YOLOX)
* [https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3)
* [https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5)

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