# YOLOv9 Implementation of paper - [YOLOv9: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Information](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13616) [![arxiv.org](http://img.shields.io/badge/cs.CV-arXiv%3A2402.13616-B31B1B.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13616) [![Hugging Face Spaces](https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20Hugging%20Face-Spaces-blue)](https://huggingface.co/spaces/kadirnar/Yolov9) [![Hugging Face Spaces](https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20Hugging%20Face-Spaces-blue)](https://huggingface.co/merve/yolov9) [![Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/roboflow-ai/notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/train-yolov9-object-detection-on-custom-dataset.ipynb) [![OpenCV](https://img.shields.io/badge/OpenCV-BlogPost-black?logo=opencv&labelColor=blue&color=black)](https://learnopencv.com/yolov9-advancing-the-yolo-legacy/)
## Performance MS COCO | Model | Test Size | APval | AP50val | AP75val | Param. | FLOPs | | :-- | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | | [**YOLOv9-T**]() | 640 | **38.3%** | **53.1%** | **41.3%** | **2.0M** | **7.7G** | | [**YOLOv9-S**]() | 640 | **46.8%** | **63.4%** | **50.7%** | **7.1M** | **26.4G** | | [**YOLOv9-M**]() | 640 | **51.4%** | **68.1%** | **56.1%** | **20.0M** | **76.3G** | | [**YOLOv9-C**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-c-converted.pt) | 640 | **53.0%** | **70.2%** | **57.8%** | **25.3M** | **102.1G** | | [**YOLOv9-E**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-e-converted.pt) | 640 | **55.6%** | **72.8%** | **60.6%** | **57.3M** | **189.0G** | ## Useful Links
Expand Custom training: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/30#issuecomment-1960955297 ONNX export: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/2#issuecomment-1960519506 https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/40#issue-2150697688 https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/130#issue-2162045461 ONNX export for segmentation: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/260#issue-2191162150 TensorRT inference: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/143#issuecomment-1975049660 https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/34#issue-2150393690 https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/79#issue-2153547004 https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/143#issue-2164002309 QAT TensorRT: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/327#issue-2229284136 https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/253#issue-2189520073 TFLite: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/374#issuecomment-2065751706 OpenVINO: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/164#issue-2168540003 C# ONNX inference: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/95#issue-2155974619 C# OpenVINO inference: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/95#issuecomment-1968131244 OpenCV: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/113#issuecomment-1971327672 Hugging Face demo: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/45#issuecomment-1961496943 CoLab demo: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/pull/18 ONNXSlim export: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/pull/37 YOLOv9 ROS: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/144#issue-2164210644 YOLOv9 ROS TensorRT: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/145#issue-2164218595 YOLOv9 Julia: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/141#issuecomment-1973710107 YOLOv9 MLX: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/258#issue-2190586540 YOLOv9 StrongSORT with OSNet: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/299#issue-2212093340 YOLOv9 ByteTrack: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/78#issue-2153512879 YOLOv9 DeepSORT: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/98#issue-2156172319 YOLOv9 counting: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/84#issue-2153904804 YOLOv9 face detection: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/121#issue-2160218766 YOLOv9 segmentation onnxruntime: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/151#issue-2165667350 Comet logging: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/pull/110 MLflow logging: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/pull/87 AnyLabeling tool: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/48#issue-2152139662 AX650N deploy: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/96#issue-2156115760 Conda environment: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/pull/93 AutoDL docker environment: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/issues/112#issue-2158203480
## Installation Docker environment (recommended)
Expand ``` shell # create the docker container, you can change the share memory size if you have more. nvidia-docker run --name yolov9 -it -v your_coco_path/:/coco/ -v your_code_path/:/yolov9 --shm-size=64g nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:21.11-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 /yolov9 ```
## Evaluation [`yolov9-c-converted.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-c-converted.pt) [`yolov9-e-converted.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-e-converted.pt) [`yolov9-c.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-c.pt) [`yolov9-e.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/yolov9-e.pt) [`gelan-c.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-c.pt) [`gelan-e.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-e.pt) ``` shell # evaluate converted yolov9 models python val.py --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --batch 32 --conf 0.001 --iou 0.7 --device 0 --weights './yolov9-c-converted.pt' --save-json --name yolov9_c_c_640_val # evaluate yolov9 models # python val_dual.py --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --batch 32 --conf 0.001 --iou 0.7 --device 0 --weights './yolov9-c.pt' --save-json --name yolov9_c_640_val # evaluate gelan models # python val.py --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --batch 32 --conf 0.001 --iou 0.7 --device 0 --weights './gelan-c.pt' --save-json --name gelan_c_640_val ``` You will get the results: ``` Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.530 Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.702 Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.75 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.578 Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.362 Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.585 Average Precision (AP) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.693 Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets= 1 ] = 0.392 Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets= 10 ] = 0.652 Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= all | maxDets=100 ] = 0.702 Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= small | maxDets=100 ] = 0.541 Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area=medium | maxDets=100 ] = 0.760 Average Recall (AR) @[ IoU=0.50:0.95 | area= large | maxDets=100 ] = 0.844 ``` ## Training Data preparation ``` shell bash scripts/get_coco.sh ``` * Download MS COCO dataset images ([train](http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/train2017.zip), [val](http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/val2017.zip), [test](http://images.cocodataset.org/zips/test2017.zip)) and [labels](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/coco2017labels-segments.zip). If you have previously used a different version of YOLO, we strongly recommend that you delete `train2017.cache` and `val2017.cache` files, and redownload [labels](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7/releases/download/v0.1/coco2017labels-segments.zip) Single GPU training ``` shell # train yolov9 models python train_dual.py --workers 8 --device 0 --batch 16 --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/detect/yolov9-c.yaml --weights '' --name yolov9-c --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --min-items 0 --epochs 500 --close-mosaic 15 # train gelan models # python train.py --workers 8 --device 0 --batch 32 --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/detect/gelan-c.yaml --weights '' --name gelan-c --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --min-items 0 --epochs 500 --close-mosaic 15 ``` Multiple GPU training ``` shell # train yolov9 models python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node 8 --master_port 9527 train_dual.py --workers 8 --device 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 --sync-bn --batch 128 --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/detect/yolov9-c.yaml --weights '' --name yolov9-c --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --min-items 0 --epochs 500 --close-mosaic 15 # train gelan models # python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node 4 --master_port 9527 train.py --workers 8 --device 0,1,2,3 --sync-bn --batch 128 --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/detect/gelan-c.yaml --weights '' --name gelan-c --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --min-items 0 --epochs 500 --close-mosaic 15 ``` ## Re-parameterization See [reparameterization.ipynb](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/blob/main/tools/reparameterization.ipynb). ## Inference
``` shell # inference converted yolov9 models python detect.py --source './data/images/horses.jpg' --img 640 --device 0 --weights './yolov9-c-converted.pt' --name yolov9_c_c_640_detect # inference yolov9 models # python detect_dual.py --source './data/images/horses.jpg' --img 640 --device 0 --weights './yolov9-c.pt' --name yolov9_c_640_detect # inference gelan models # python detect.py --source './data/images/horses.jpg' --img 640 --device 0 --weights './gelan-c.pt' --name gelan_c_c_640_detect ``` ## Citation ``` @article{wang2024yolov9, title={{YOLOv9}: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Information}, author={Wang, Chien-Yao and Liao, Hong-Yuan Mark}, booktitle={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.13616}, year={2024} } ``` ``` @article{chang2023yolor, title={{YOLOR}-Based Multi-Task Learning}, author={Chang, Hung-Shuo and Wang, Chien-Yao and Wang, Richard Robert and Chou, Gene and Liao, Hong-Yuan Mark}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16921}, year={2023} } ``` ## Teaser Parts of code of [YOLOR-Based Multi-Task Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16921) are released in the repository.
#### Object Detection [`gelan-c-det.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-c-det.pt) `object detection` ``` shell # coco/labels/{split}/*.txt # bbox or polygon (1 instance 1 line) python train.py --workers 8 --device 0 --batch 32 --data data/coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/detect/gelan-c.yaml --weights '' --name gelan-c-det --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --min-items 0 --epochs 300 --close-mosaic 10 ``` | Model | Test Size | Param. | FLOPs | APbox | | :-- | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | | [**GELAN-C-DET**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-c-det.pt) | 640 | 25.3M | 102.1G |**52.3%** | | [**YOLOv9-C-DET**]() | 640 | 25.3M | 102.1G | **53.0%** | #### Instance Segmentation [`gelan-c-seg.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-c-seg.pt) `object detection` `instance segmentation` ``` shell # coco/labels/{split}/*.txt # polygon (1 instance 1 line) python segment/train.py --workers 8 --device 0 --batch 32 --data coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/segment/gelan-c-seg.yaml --weights '' --name gelan-c-seg --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --no-overlap --epochs 300 --close-mosaic 10 ``` | Model | Test Size | Param. | FLOPs | APbox | APmask | | :-- | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | | [**GELAN-C-SEG**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-c-seg.pt) | 640 | 27.4M | 144.6G | **52.3%** | **42.4%** | | [**YOLOv9-C-SEG**]() | 640 | 27.4M | 145.5G | **53.3%** | **43.5%** | #### Panoptic Segmentation [`gelan-c-pan.pt`](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-c-pan.pt) `object detection` `instance segmentation` `semantic segmentation` `stuff segmentation` `panoptic segmentation` ``` shell # coco/labels/{split}/*.txt # polygon (1 instance 1 line) # coco/stuff/{split}/*.txt # polygon (1 semantic 1 line) python panoptic/train.py --workers 8 --device 0 --batch 32 --data coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/panoptic/gelan-c-pan.yaml --weights '' --name gelan-c-pan --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --no-overlap --epochs 300 --close-mosaic 10 ``` | Model | Test Size | Param. | FLOPs | APbox | APmask | mIoU164k/10ksemantic | mIoUstuff | PQpanoptic | | :-- | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | | [**GELAN-C-PAN**](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov9/releases/download/v0.1/gelan-c-pan.pt) | 640 | 27.6M | 146.7G | **52.6%** | **42.5%** | **39.0%/48.3%** | **52.7%** | **39.4%** | | [**YOLOv9-C-PAN**]() | 640 | 28.8M | 187.0G | **52.7%** | **43.0%** | **39.8%/-** | **52.2%** | **40.5%** | #### Image Captioning (not yet released) `object detection` `instance segmentation` `semantic segmentation` `stuff segmentation` `panoptic segmentation` `image captioning` ``` shell # coco/labels/{split}/*.txt # polygon (1 instance 1 line) # coco/stuff/{split}/*.txt # polygon (1 semantic 1 line) # coco/annotations/*.json # json (1 split 1 file) python caption/train.py --workers 8 --device 0 --batch 32 --data coco.yaml --img 640 --cfg models/caption/gelan-c-cap.yaml --weights '' --name gelan-c-cap --hyp hyp.scratch-high.yaml --no-overlap --epochs 300 --close-mosaic 10 ``` | Model | Test Size | Param. | FLOPs | APbox | APmask | mIoU164k/10ksemantic | mIoUstuff | PQpanoptic | BLEU@4caption | CIDErcaption | | :-- | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | :-: | | [**GELAN-C-CAP**]() | 640 | 47.5M | - | **51.9%** | **42.6%** | **42.5%/-** | **56.5%** | **41.7%** | **38.8** | **122.3** | | [**YOLOv9-C-CAP**]() | 640 | 47.5M | - | **52.1%** | **42.6%** | **43.0%/-** | **56.4%** | **42.1%** | **39.1** | **122.0** | ## Acknowledgements
Expand * [https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet](https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet) * [https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolor](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolor) * [https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7](https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7) * [https://github.com/VDIGPKU/DynamicDet](https://github.com/VDIGPKU/DynamicDet) * [https://github.com/DingXiaoH/RepVGG](https://github.com/DingXiaoH/RepVGG) * [https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5) * [https://github.com/meituan/YOLOv6](https://github.com/meituan/YOLOv6)