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YOLOv6 v3.0: A Full-Scale Reloading

arXiv 2301.05586 ↗First posted 13 Jan 2023cs.CVcited by 58

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Abstract (arXiv)

The YOLO community has been in high spirits since our first two releases! By the advent of Chinese New Year 2023, which sees the Year of the Rabbit, we refurnish YOLOv6 with numerous novel enhancements on the network architecture and the training scheme. This release is identified as YOLOv6 v3.0. For a glimpse of performance, our YOLOv6-N hits 37.5% AP on the COCO dataset at a throughput of 1187 FPS tested with an NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU. YOLOv6-S strikes 45.0% AP at 484 FPS, outperforming other mainstream detectors at the same scale (YOLOv5-S, YOLOv8-S, YOLOX-S and PPYOLOE-S). Whereas, YOLOv6-M/L also achieve better accuracy performance (50.0%/52.8% respectively) than other detectors at a similar inference speed. Additionally, with an extended backbone and neck design, our YOLOv6-L6 achieves the state-of-the-art accuracy in real-time. Extensive experiments are carefully conducted to validate the effectiveness of each improving component. Our code is made available at https://github.com/meituan/YOLOv6.

Key facts. Cited by 58 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 16 of its 22 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Jan 2023.

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  1. 2016Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detectioncited by 5,036
  2. 2015You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detectioncited by 4,852
  3. 2018YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvementcited by 2,659
  4. 2020YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detectioncited by 1,630
  5. 2016YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Strongercited by 1,431
  6. 2021YOLOX: Exceeding YOLO Series in 2021cited by 1,071
  7. 2019EfficientDet: Scalable and Efficient Object Detectioncited by 1,020
  8. 2022YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectorscited by 982
  9. 2018Path Aggregation Network for Instance Segmentationcited by 798
  10. 2019Bridging the Gap Between Anchor-based and Anchor-free Detection via Adaptive Training Sample Selectioncited by 540
  11. 2020Generalized Focal Loss: Learning Qualified and Distributed Bounding Boxes for Dense Object Detectioncited by 409
  12. 2019NAS-FPN: Learning Scalable Feature Pyramid Architecture for Object Detectioncited by 291
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  1. 2022YOLOv6: A Single-Stage Object Detection Framework for Industrial Applicationscited by 275
  2. 2022PP-YOLOE: An evolved version of YOLOcited by 75
  3. 2022Localization Distillation for Object Detectioncited by 19
  4. 2020Parallel Residual Bi-Fusion Feature Pyramid Network for Accurate Single-Shot Object Detectioncited by 15

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  1. 2023DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detectioncited by 533
  2. 2024YOLOv10: Real-Time End-to-End Object Detectioncited by 515
  3. 2024YOLOv9: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Informationcited by 425
  4. 2025YOLOv12: Attention-Centric Real-Time Object Detectorscited by 305
  5. 2024RT-DETRv2: Improved Baseline with Bag-of-Freebies for Real-Time Detection Transformercited by 91
  6. 2025YOLOv13: Real-Time Object Detection with Hypergraph-Enhanced Adaptive Visual Perceptioncited by 58
  7. 2023Gold-YOLO: Efficient Object Detector via Gather-and-Distribute Mechanismcited by 51
  8. 2024LW-DETR: A Transformer Replacement to YOLO for Real-Time Detectioncited by 36
  9. 2024Hyper-YOLO: When Visual Object Detection Meets Hypergraph Computationcited by 29
  10. 2025Real-Time Object Detection Meets DINOv3cited by 27
  11. 2023PFB-Diff: Progressive Feature Blending Diffusion for Text-driven Image Editingcited by 20
  12. 2025WeDetect: Fast Open-Vocabulary Object Detection as Retrievalcited by 14
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  1. 2023Exploring Large Language Models for Multi-Modal Out-of-Distribution Detectioncited by 13
  2. 2024YOLOv1 to YOLOv10: The fastest and most accurate real-time object detection systemscited by 7
  3. 2025SU-YOLO: Spiking Neural Network for Efficient Underwater Object Detectioncited by 7
  4. 2025LLIA -- Enabling Low-Latency Interactive Avatars: Real-Time Audio-Driven Portrait Video Generation with Diffusion Modelscited by 7
  5. 2023EdgeYOLO: An Edge-Real-Time Object Detectorcited by 6
  6. 2023WeLayout: WeChat Layout Analysis System for the ICDAR 2023 Competition on Robust Layout Segmentation in Corporate Documentscited by 5
  7. 2023YOLOBench: Benchmarking Efficient Object Detectors on Embedded Systemscited by 5
  8. 2023RCS-YOLO: A Fast and High-Accuracy Object Detector for Brain Tumor Detectioncited by 5
  9. 2024Multi-Branch Auxiliary Fusion YOLO with Re-parameterization Heterogeneous Convolutional for accurate object detectioncited by 5
  10. 2023SATAY: A Streaming Architecture Toolflow for Accelerating YOLO Models on FPGA Devicescited by 4
  11. 2024Breaking the Illusion: Real-world Challenges for Adversarial Patches in Object Detectioncited by 4
  12. 2025MHAF-YOLO: Multi-Branch Heterogeneous Auxiliary Fusion YOLO for accurate object detectioncited by 4
  13. 2025Rip Current Segmentation: A Novel Benchmark and YOLOv8 Baseline Resultscited by 4
  14. 2025Vision-Based Anti Unmanned Aerial Technology: Opportunities and Challengescited by 4
  15. 2024FedPylot: Navigating Federated Learning for Real-Time Object Detection in Internet of Vehiclescited by 2
  16. 2024Comparing YOLOv5 Variants for Vehicle Detection: A Performance Analysiscited by 2
  17. 2024MCUBench: A Benchmark of Tiny Object Detectors on MCUscited by 2
  18. 2024Class-Agnostic Visio-Temporal Scene Sketch Semantic Segmentationcited by 2
  19. 2023CST-YOLO: A Novel Method for Blood Cell Detection Based on Improved YOLOv7 and CNN-Swin Transformercited by 1
  20. 2023Multi-growth stage plant recognition: a case study of Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)cited by 1
  21. 2023Investigating YOLO Models Towards Outdoor Obstacle Detection For Visually Impaired Peoplecited by 1
  22. 2024CoRaiS: Lightweight Real-Time Scheduler for Multi-Edge Cooperative Computingcited by 1
  23. 2024Decay Pruning Method: Smooth Pruning With a Self-Rectifying Procedurecited by 1
  24. 2024DASSF: Dynamic-Attention Scale-Sequence Fusion for Aerial Object Detectioncited by 1
  25. 2024FA-YOLO: Research On Efficient Feature Selection YOLO Improved Algorithm Based On FMDS and AGMF Modulescited by 1
  26. 2024What is YOLOv6? A Deep Insight into the Object Detection Modelcited by 1
  27. 2025VisAlgae 2023: A Dataset and Challenge for Algae Detection in Microscopy Imagescited by 1
  28. 2025Automated Defect Detection for Mass-Produced Electronic Components Based on YOLO Object Detection Modelscited by 1
  29. 2023Computer Vision-Aided Intelligent Monitoring of Coffee: Towards Sustainable Coffee Productioncited by 0
  30. 2023Improving Data Efficiency for Plant Cover Prediction with Label Interpolation and Monte-Carlo Croppingcited by 0
  31. 2023Multi-scale direction-aware SAR object detection network via global information fusioncited by 0
  32. 2024SGDM: Static-Guided Dynamic Module Make Stronger Visual Modelscited by 0
  33. 2024YotoR-You Only Transform One Representationcited by 0
  34. 2024Octave-YOLO: Cross frequency detection network with octave convolutioncited by 0
  35. 2024ActNAS : Generating Efficient YOLO Models using Activation NAScited by 0
  36. 2024Deep Learning Models for UAV-Assisted Bridge Inspection: A YOLO Benchmark Analysiscited by 0
  37. 2025Efficient Vision-based Vehicle Speed Estimationcited by 0
  38. 2025Thermal Detection of People with Mobility Restrictions for Barrier Reduction at Traffic Lights Controlled Intersectionscited by 0

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