Date of Release	Jan 06, 2020
Model Type	Object Detection
Architecture	CNN, YOLO
Framework Used	PyTorch
Annotation Format	YOLOv5 PyTorch TXT
Stars on GitHub	33200+

YOLOv5 is Here

YOLOv5 was released by Glenn Jocher on June 9, 2020. It follows the recent releases of YOLOv4 (April 23, 2020) and EfficientDet (March 18, 2020).

YOLOv5 Performance

YOLOv5 is smaller and generally easier to use in production. Given it is natively implemented in PyTorch (rather than Darknet), modifying the architecture and exporting to many deploy environments is straightforward.

SIZE: YOLOv5s is about 88% smaller than big-YOLOv4 (27 MB vs 244 MB)

SPEED: YOLOv5 performs batch inference at about 140 FPS by default.
ACCURACY: YOLOv5 is roughly as accurate as YOLOv4 on small tasks (0.895 mAP vs 0.892 mAP on BCCD). On larger tasks like COCO, YOLOv4 is more performant.

Using YOLOv5

We've written both a YOLOv5 tutorial and YOLOv5 Colab notebook for training YOLOv5 on your own custom data.

2022 YOLOv5 releases Classification and Instance Segmentation

YOLOv5 launched supporting bounding boxes for object detection. Now you can use YOLOv5 for classification and instance segmentation as well.

‍

Train Edge-Ready YOLOv5 Models without Labeling

Using the open-source Autodistill package, you can train efficient models ready for deployment in a few lines of code.

Get started

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

YOLOv8 is here, setting a new standard for performance in object detection and image segmentation tasks. Roboflow has developed a library of resources to help you get started with YOLOv8, covering guides on how to train YOLOv8, how the model stacks up against v5 and v7, and more.

Learn about YOLOv8

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

Learn about YOLOv8

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

Learn about YOLOv8

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

Learn about YOLOv8

Model Performance

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^box 50-95	mAP^mask 50-95	Train time ^{300 epochs A100 (hours)}	Speed ^{ONNX CPU (ms)}	Speed ^{TRT A100 (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^{@640 (B)}
YOLOv5n-seg	640	27.6	23.4	80:17	62.7	1.2	2.0	7.1
YOLOv5s-seg	640	37.6	31.7	88:16	173.3	1.4	7.6	26.4
YOLOv5m-seg	640	45.0	37.1	108:36	427.0	2.2	22.0	70.8
YOLOv5l-seg	640	49.0	39.9	66:43 (2x)	857.4	2.9	47.9	147.7
YOLOv5x-seg	640	50.7	41.4	62:56 (3x)	1579.2	4.5	88.8	265.7

Explore this model on Roboflow

YOLOv5 for Oriented Object Detection

Oriented bounding boxes are bounding boxes rotated to better fit the objects represented on an angle. Follow this guide to learn more.

Responding to the Controversy about YOLOv5

Retail Store Item Detection using YOLOv5

School Bus Object Detection Using YOLOv5

Learn how to train YOLOv5 to detect a school bus using Roboflow and CometML

What is YOLOv5? A Guide for Beginners.

YOLOv5 derives most of its performance improvement from PyTorch training procedures, while the model architecture remains close to YOLOv4.

How to Train YOLOv5 On a Custom Dataset

In this post, we will walk through how you can train YOLOv5 to recognize your custom objects for your custom use case.

YOLOv5 Annotation Format

YOLOv5

uses the

YOLOv5 PyTorch TXT

annotation format. If your annotation is in a different format, you can use Roboflow's annotation conversion tools to get your data into the right format.
‍
‍

Convert data between formats

Compare to related models

Curious about how YOLOv5 compares to other models? Check out our model comparisons.

YOLOv8 Instance Segmentation vs. YOLOv5

YOLOv8 vs. YOLOv5

YOLOv7 Instance Segmentation vs. YOLOv5

OneFormer vs. YOLOv5

MobileNet V2 Classification vs. YOLOv5

MobileNet SSD v2 vs. YOLOv5

YOLOv3 Keras vs. YOLOv5

YOLOv3 PyTorch vs. YOLOv5

YOLOv4 PyTorch vs. YOLOv5

YOLOv4 vs. YOLOv5

Deploy a computer vision model today

Join 100k developers curating high quality datasets and deploying better models with Roboflow.

Get started

Explore Models

By Task

By Feature

What is YOLOv5?

About the model

YOLOv5 is Here

YOLOv5 Performance

Using YOLOv5

2022 YOLOv5 releases Classification and Instance Segmentation

Train Edge-Ready YOLOv5 Models without Labeling

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

Check out YOLOv8, defining a new state-of-the-art in computer vision

Model Performance

Explore this model on Roboflow

YOLOv5 for Oriented Object Detection

Responding to the Controversy about YOLOv5

Retail Store Item Detection using YOLOv5

School Bus Object Detection Using YOLOv5

What is YOLOv5? A Guide for Beginners.

How to Train YOLOv5 On a Custom Dataset

YOLOv5 Annotation Format

Compare to related models

Deploy a computer vision model today