Overview

The YOLOv6 repository was published June 2022 by Meituan, and it claims new state-of-the-art performance on the COCO dataset benchmark. We'll leave it to the community to determine if this name is the best representation for the architecture.

https://blog.roboflow.com/yolov6/

In any case, it's clear MT-YOLOv6 (hereafter YOLOv6 for brevity) is popular. In a couple short weeks, the repo has attracted over 2,000+ stars and 300+ forks.

YOLOv6 claims to set a new state-of-the-art performance on the COCO dataset benchmark. As the authors detail, YOLOv6-s achieves 43.1 mAP on COCO val2017 dataset (with 520 FPS on T4 using TensorRT FP16 for bs32 inference).

(For point of comparison, YOLOv5-s achieves 37.4 mAP @ 0.95% on the same COCO benchmark.)
The YOLOv6 repository authors published the below evaluation graphic, demonstrating YOLOv6 outperforming YOLOv5 and YOLOX at similar sizes.

Performance

Model	Size	mAP^val 0.5:0.95	Speed^{T4 trt fp16 b1 (fps)}	Speed^{T4 trt fp16 b32 (fps)}	Params ^(M)	FLOPs ^(G)
YOLOv6-N	640	35.9^300e 36.3^400e	802	1234	4.3	11.1
YOLOv6-T	640	40.3^300e 41.1^400e	449	659	15.0	36.7
YOLOv6-S	640	43.5^300e 43.8^400e	358	495	17.2	44.2
YOLOv6-M	640	49.5	179	233	34.3	82.2
YOLOv6-L-ReLU	640	51.7	113	149	58.5	144.0
YOLOv6-L	640	52.5	98	121	58.5	144.0

Use This Model

Label Data Automatically with MT-YOLOv6

You can automatically label a dataset using MT-YOLOv6 with help from Autodistill, an open source package for training computer vision models. You can label a folder of images automatically with only a few lines of code. Below, see our tutorials that demonstrate how to use MT-YOLOv6 to train a computer vision model.

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