YOLOv6 3.0

v3.0 release

Features

Release P6 models and update P5 models

• Renew the neck of the detector with a BiC module and SimCSPSPPF Block.
• Propose an anchor-aided training (AAT) strategy.
• Involve a new self-distillation strategy for small models of YOLOv6.
• Expand YOLOv6 and hit a new SOTA performance on the COCO dataset.

Performance

Model	Size	mAPval 0.5:0.95	SpeedT4 trt fp16 b1 (fps)	SpeedT4 trt fp16 b32 (fps)	Params (M)	FLOPs (G)
YOLOv6-N	640	37.5	779	1187	4.7	11.4
YOLOv6-S	640	45.0	339	484	18.5	45.3
YOLOv6-M	640	50.0	175	226	34.9	85.8
YOLOv6-L	640	52.8	98	116	59.6	150.7
YOLOv6-N6	1280	44.9	228	281	10.4	49.8
YOLOv6-S6	1280	50.3	98	108	41.4	198.0
YOLOv6-M6	1280	55.2	47	55	79.6	379.5
YOLOv6-L6	1280	57.2	26	29	140.4	673.4

Performance of base models

Model	Size	mAPval 0.5:0.95	SpeedT4 TRT FP16 b1 (FPS)	SpeedT4 TRT FP16 b32 (FPS)	SpeedT4 TRT INT8 b1 (FPS)	SpeedT4 TRT INT8 b32 (FPS)	Params (M)	FLOPs (G)
YOLOv6-N-base	640	36.6	727	1302	814	1805	4.65	11.46
YOLOv6-S-base	640	45.3	346	525	487	908	13.14	30.6
YOLOv6-M-base	640	49.4	179	245	284	439	28.33	72.30
YOLOv6-L-base	640	51.1	116	157	196	288	59.61	150.89