• All checkpoints are trained with self-distillation except for YOLOv6-N6/S6 models trained to 300 epochs without distillation.
• Results of the mAP and speed are evaluated on COCO val2017 dataset with the input resolution of 640×640 for P5 models and 1280x1280 for P6 models.
• Speed is tested with TensorRT 7.2 on T4.
• Refer to Test speed tutorial to reproduce the speed results of YOLOv6.
• Params and FLOPs of YOLOv6 are estimated on deployed models.

• Speed is tested with TensorRT 7.2 on T4.

• Speed is tested with TensorRT 8.4 on T4.
• Precision is figured on models for 300 epochs.

• From the perspective of model size and input image ratio, we have built a series of models on the mobile terminal to facilitate flexible applications in different scenarios.
• All checkpoints are trained with 400 epochs without distillation.
• Results of the mAP and speed are evaluated on COCO val2017 dataset, and the input resolution is the Size in the table.
• Speed is tested on MNN 2.3.0 AArch64 with 2 threads by arm82 acceleration. The inference warm-up is performed 10 times, and the cycle is performed 100 times.
• Qualcomm 888(sm8350), Dimensity 720(mt6853) and Qualcomm 660(sdm660) correspond to chips with different performances at the high, middle and low end respectively, which can be used as a reference for model capabilities under different chips.
• Refer to Test NCNN Speed tutorial to reproduce the NCNN speed results of YOLOv6Lite.

Please refer to Train COCO Dataset.

Single GPU

# P5 models
python tools/train.py --batch 32 --conf configs/yolov6s_finetune.py --data data/dataset.yaml --fuse_ab --device 0
# P6 models
python tools/train.py --batch 32 --conf configs/yolov6s6_finetune.py --data data/dataset.yaml --img 1280 --device 0

Multi GPUs (DDP mode recommended)

# P5 models
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node 8 tools/train.py --batch 256 --conf configs/yolov6s_finetune.py --data data/dataset.yaml --fuse_ab --device 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
# P6 models
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node 8 tools/train.py --batch 128 --conf configs/yolov6s6_finetune.py --data data/dataset.yaml --img 1280 --device 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7

• fuse_ab: add anchor-based auxiliary branch and use Anchor Aided Training Mode (Not supported on P6 models currently)
• conf: select config file to specify network/optimizer/hyperparameters. We recommend to apply yolov6n/s/m/l_finetune.py when training on your custom dataset.
• data: prepare dataset and specify dataset paths in data.yaml ( COCO, YOLO format coco labels )
• make sure your dataset structure as follows:

├── coco
│   ├── annotations
│   │   ├── instances_train2017.json
│   │   └── instances_val2017.json
│   ├── images
│   │   ├── train2017
│   │   └── val2017
│   ├── labels
│   │   ├── train2017
│   │   ├── val2017
│   ├── LICENSE
│   ├── README.txt

YOLOv6 supports different input resolution modes. For details, see How to Set the Input Size.

If your training process is corrupted, you can resume training by

# single GPU training.
python tools/train.py --resume

# multi GPU training.
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node 8 tools/train.py --resume

Above command will automatically find the latest checkpoint in YOLOv6 directory, then resume the training process.

Your can also specify a checkpoint path to --resume parameter by

# remember to replace /path/to/your/checkpoint/path to the checkpoint path which you want to resume training.
--resume /path/to/your/checkpoint/path

This will resume from the specific checkpoint you provide.

Reproduce mAP on COCO val2017 dataset with 640×640 or 1280x1280 resolution

# P5 models
python tools/eval.py --data data/coco.yaml --batch 32 --weights yolov6s.pt --task val --reproduce_640_eval
# P6 models
python tools/eval.py --data data/coco.yaml --batch 32 --weights yolov6s6.pt --task val --reproduce_640_eval --img 1280

• verbose: set True to print mAP of each classes.
• do_coco_metric: set True / False to enable / disable pycocotools evaluation method.
• do_pr_metric: set True / False to print or not to print the precision and recall metrics.
• config-file: specify a config file to define all the eval params, for example: yolov6n_with_eval_params.py

First, download a pretrained model from the YOLOv6 release or use your trained model to do inference.

Second, run inference with tools/infer.py

# P5 models
python tools/infer.py --weights yolov6s.pt --source img.jpg / imgdir / video.mp4
# P6 models
python tools/infer.py --weights yolov6s6.pt --img 1280 1280 --source img.jpg / imgdir / video.mp4

If you want to inference on local camera or web camera, you can run:

# P5 models
python tools/infer.py --weights yolov6s.pt --webcam --webcam-addr 0
# P6 models
python tools/infer.py --weights yolov6s6.pt --img 1280 1280 --webcam --webcam-addr 0

webcam-addr can be local camera number id or rtsp address.

• ONNX
• OpenCV Python/C++
• OpenVINO
• TensorRT
• NCNN
• Android

• User Guide(zh_CN)
• Train COCO Dataset
• Train custom data
• Test speed
• Tutorial of Quantization for YOLOv6

• YOLOv6 NCNN Android app demo: ncnn-android-yolov6 from FeiGeChuanShu

• YOLOv6 ONNXRuntime/MNN/TNN C++: YOLOv6-ORT, YOLOv6-MNN and YOLOv6-TNN from DefTruth

• YOLOv6 TensorRT Python: yolov6-tensorrt-python from Linaom1214

• YOLOv6 TensorRT Windows C++: yolort from Wei Zeng

• YOLOv6 web demo on Huggingface Spaces with Gradio.

• Interactive demo on DagsHub with Streamlit

• Tutorial: How to train YOLOv6 on a custom dataset

• YouTube Tutorial: How to train YOLOv6 on a custom dataset

• Demo of YOLOv6 inference on Google Colab

• Blog post: YOLOv6 Object Detection – Paper Explanation and Inference