Object detection in PyTorch
Worth a timeboxed spike before you bet on it.
Small teams with basic CV needs
Manual image labeling
AGPL-3.0 license may restrict commercial use
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AGPL-3.0. If you run a modified version as part of a service you offer to others, you may be required to publish your source. Many companies buy a commercial licence instead.
This is a reading of the licence label, not legal advice.
The numbers
Maintainers describe it as: “Ultralytics YOLOv5 in PyTorch for object detection, instance segmentation, classification, training, and export.”
yolov5, in short
- Should a small team use yolov5?
- Pilot it. Worth a timeboxed spike before you bet on it. Small teams with basic CV needs
- What does yolov5 actually do?
- Object detection in PyTorch
- What does yolov5 replace?
- Manual image labeling
- What is the downside of yolov5?
- AGPL-3.0 license may restrict commercial use
- Can yolov5 be used in a commercial product?
- Its licence is AGPL-3.0, which carries obligations or restrictions for commercial use. Read the LICENSE file, and get a lawyer's read before you ship it inside a product you sell.
Weighed against
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