Detectron2 is Facebook AI Research's next generation software system
that implements state-of-the-art object detection algorithms.
It is a ground-up rewrite of the previous version,
[Detectron](https://github.com/facebookresearch/Detectron/),
and it originates from [maskrcnn-benchmark](https://github.com/facebookresearch/maskrcnn-benchmark/).
### What's New
* It is powered by the [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org) deep learning framework.
* Includes more features such as panoptic segmentation, Densepose, Cascade R-CNN, rotated bounding boxes, PointRend,
DeepLab, etc.
* Can be used as a library to support [different projects](projects/) on top of it.
We'll open source more research projects in this way.
* It [trains much faster](https://detectron2.readthedocs.io/notes/benchmarks.html).
* Models can be exported to TorchScript format or Caffe2 format for deployment.
See our [blog post](https://ai.facebook.com/blog/-detectron2-a-pytorch-based-modular-object-detection-library-/)
to see more demos and learn about detectron2.
## Installation
See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md).
## Getting Started
Follow the [installation instructions](https://detectron2.readthedocs.io/tutorials/install.html) to
install detectron2.
See [Getting Started with Detectron2](https://detectron2.readthedocs.io/tutorials/getting_started.html),
and the [Colab Notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/16jcaJoc6bCFAQ96jDe2HwtXj7BMD_-m5)
to learn about basic usage.
Learn more at our [documentation](https://detectron2.readthedocs.org).
And see [projects/](projects/) for some projects that are built on top of detectron2.
## Model Zoo and Baselines
We provide a large set of baseline results and trained models available for download in the [Detectron2 Model Zoo](MODEL_ZOO.md).
## License
Detectron2 is released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE).
## Citing Detectron2
If you use Detectron2 in your research or wish to refer to the baseline results published in the [Model Zoo](MODEL_ZOO.md), please use the following BibTeX entry.
```BibTeX
@misc{wu2019detectron2,
author = {Yuxin Wu and Alexander Kirillov and Francisco Massa and
Wan-Yen Lo and Ross Girshick},
title = {Detectron2},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2}},
year = {2019}
}
```
