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YOLOv6 v3.0: A Full-Scale Reloading

13 Jan 2023arXiv:2301.05586archive 2025-07-28

Chuyi Li, Lulu Li, Yifei Geng, Hongliang Jiang, Meng Cheng, Bo Zhang, Zaidan Ke, Xiaoming Xu, Xiangxiang Chu

The YOLO community has been in high spirits since our first two releases! By the advent of Chinese New Year 2023, which sees the Year of the Rabbit, we refurnish YOLOv6 with numerous novel enhancements on the network architecture and the training scheme. This release is identified as YOLOv6 v3.0. For a glimpse of performance, our YOLOv6-N hits 37.5% AP on the COCO dataset at a throughput of 1187 FPS tested with an NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU. YOLOv6-S strikes 45.0% AP at 484 FPS, outperforming other mainstream detectors at the same scale (YOLOv5-S, YOLOv8-S, YOLOX-S and PPYOLOE-S). Whereas, YOLOv6-M/L also achieve better accuracy performance (50.0%/52.8% respectively) than other detectors at a similar inference speed. Additionally, with an extended backbone and neck design, our YOLOv6-L6 achieves the state-of-the-art accuracy in real-time. Extensive experiments are carefully conducted to validate the effectiveness of each improving component. Our code is made available at https://github.com/meituan/YOLOv6.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Object Detection COCO 2017 val YOLOv6-L6(46 fps, V100, bs1) AP 57.2 #7 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO 2017 val YOLOv6-L6(46 fps, V100, bs1) AP50 74.5 #7 of 33 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO minival YOLOv6-L6(46 fps, 1280, V100) AP50 74.5 #40 of 220 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection COCO minival YOLOv6-L6(46 fps, 1280, V100) box AP 57.2 #40 of 220 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-L FPS (V100, b=1) 98 #37 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-L box AP 52.8 #37 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-S6(1280) FPS (V100, b=1) 98 #56 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-S6(1280) box AP 50.3 #56 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-M FPS (V100, b=1) 175 #57 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-M box AP 50.0 #57 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-S FPS (V100, b=1) 339 #69 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-S box AP 45.0 #69 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-N FPS (V100, b=1) 779 #79 of 82 Archive leaderboard report
Real-Time Object Detection COCO (Common Objects in Context) YOLOv6-N box AP 37.5 #79 of 82 Archive leaderboard report

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