/YOLOX

YOLOX is a high-performance anchor-free YOLO, exceeding yolov3~v5 with MegEngine, ONNX, TensorRT, ncnn, and OpenVINO supported.

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Introduction

YOLOX is an anchor-free version of YOLO, with a simpler design but better performance! It aims to bridge the gap between research and industrial communities. For more details, please refer to our report on Arxiv.

Updates!!

  • 【2021/07/28】 We fix the fatal error of memory leak
  • 【2021/07/26】 We now support MegEngine deployment.
  • 【2021/07/20】 We have released our technical report on Arxiv.

Comming soon

  • YOLOX-P6 and larger model.
  • Objects365 pretrain.
  • Transformer modules.
  • More features in need.

Benchmark

Standard Models.

Model size mAPtest
0.5:0.95		 Speed V100
(ms)		 Params
(M)		 FLOPs
(G)		 weights
YOLOX-s 640 39.6 9.8 9.0 26.8 onedrive/github
YOLOX-m 640 46.4 12.3 25.3 73.8 onedrive/github
YOLOX-l 640 50.0 14.5 54.2 155.6 onedrive/github
YOLOX-x 640 51.2 17.3 99.1 281.9 onedrive/github
YOLOX-Darknet53 640 47.4 11.1 63.7 185.3 onedrive/github

Light Models.

Model size mAPval
0.5:0.95		 Params
(M)		 FLOPs
(G)		 weights
YOLOX-Nano 416 25.3 0.91 1.08 onedrive/github
YOLOX-Tiny 416 31.7 5.06 6.45 onedrive/github

Quick Start

Installation

Step1. Install YOLOX.

git clone git@github.com:Megvii-BaseDetection/YOLOX.git
cd YOLOX
pip3 install -U pip && pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install -v -e .  # or  python3 setup.py develop

Step2. Install apex.

# skip this step if you don't want to train model.
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex
cd apex
pip3 install -v --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir --global-option="--cpp_ext" --global-option="--cuda_ext" ./

Step3. Install pycocotools.

pip3 install cython; pip3 install 'git+https://github.com/cocodataset/cocoapi.git#subdirectory=PythonAPI'
Demo

Step1. Download a pretrained model from the benchmark table.

Step2. Use either -n or -f to specify your detector's config. For example:

python tools/demo.py image -n yolox-s -c /path/to/your/yolox_s.pth.tar --path assets/dog.jpg --conf 0.25 --nms 0.45 --tsize 640 --save_result --device [cpu/gpu]

or

python tools/demo.py image -f exps/default/yolox_s.py -c /path/to/your/yolox_s.pth.tar --path assets/dog.jpg --conf 0.25 --nms 0.45 --tsize 640 --save_result --device [cpu/gpu]

Demo for video:

python tools/demo.py video -n yolox-s -c /path/to/your/yolox_s.pth.tar --path /path/to/your/video --conf 0.25 --nms 0.45 --tsize 640 --save_result --device [cpu/gpu]
Reproduce our results on COCO

Step1. Prepare COCO dataset

cd <YOLOX_HOME>
ln -s /path/to/your/COCO ./datasets/COCO

Step2. Reproduce our results on COCO by specifying -n:

python tools/train.py -n yolox-s -d 8 -b 64 --fp16 -o
                         yolox-m
                         yolox-l
                         yolox-x
  • -d: number of gpu devices
  • -b: total batch size, the recommended number for -b is num-gpu * 8
  • --fp16: mixed precision training

Multi Machine Training

We also support multi-nodes training. Just add the following args:

  • --num_machines: num of your total training nodes
  • --machine_rank: specify the rank of each node

When using -f, the above commands are equivalent to:

python tools/train.py -f exps/default/yolox-s.py -d 8 -b 64 --fp16 -o
                         exps/default/yolox-m.py
                         exps/default/yolox-l.py
                         exps/default/yolox-x.py
Evaluation

We support batch testing for fast evaluation:

python tools/eval.py -n  yolox-s -c yolox_s.pth.tar -b 64 -d 8 --conf 0.001 [--fp16] [--fuse]
                         yolox-m
                         yolox-l
                         yolox-x
  • --fuse: fuse conv and bn
  • -d: number of GPUs used for evaluation. DEFAULT: All GPUs available will be used.
  • -b: total batch size across on all GPUs

To reproduce speed test, we use the following command:

python tools/eval.py -n  yolox-s -c yolox_s.pth.tar -b 1 -d 1 --conf 0.001 --fp16 --fuse
                         yolox-m
                         yolox-l
                         yolox-x
Tutorials

Deployment

  1. MegEngine in C++ and Python
  2. ONNX export and an ONNXRuntime
  3. TensorRT in C++ and Python
  4. ncnn in C++ and Java
  5. OpenVINO in C++ and Python

Third-party resources

Cite YOLOX

If you use YOLOX in your research, please cite our work by using the following BibTeX entry:

 @article{yolox2021,
  title={YOLOX: Exceeding YOLO Series in 2021},
  author={Ge, Zheng and Liu, Songtao and Wang, Feng and Li, Zeming and Sun, Jian},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08430},
  year={2021}
}