Official YOLO v7 Object Detection COMPLETE Tutorial for Google Colab

This YOLO v7 tutorial enables you to run object detection in colab. This is a complete tutorial and covers all variations of the YOLO v7 object detector. YOLO v7 has just been released and shows accuracy and speed improvements over its predecessors. Currently, YOLO v7 is the world's fastest and most accurate object detector. This tutorial is focused on running pre-trained YOLO v7 models (all seven variants).

YOLO v7 surpasses all known object detectors in both speed and accuracy in the range from 5 FPS to 160 FPS and has the highest accuracy 56.8% AP among all known real-time object detectors with 30 FPS or higher on GPU V100.

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► Time Stamps:
Introduction: (0:00)
Setting up Colab Notebook: (0:22)
Mounting Google Drive: (0:44)
Create YOLOv7 Directories: (1:37)
Download YOLOv7 Model: (2:46)
Modify Code Files: (3:21)
Copy Image and Video: (6:20)
YOLOv7 Object Detection on Images: (6:33)
YOLOv7 Object Detection on Videos: (7:15)
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[junaidqadirb]

You can also double-click a file to edit it within Google colab and save it.

[iamxbaa]

okay so this is literally one tutorial in whole yt that helped me get that video object tracking..
Im so thankful

[hugehammer]

Damm man! Nice video, I'm finally starting object detection

[martinkwesimawusi]

I have been looking for the best video to properly introduce me to google colab and YOLO and you have just done that to my sactisfaction.
Thank you very much.

[pvrohanraj]

Great Video, Simple explanation. No errors. why did you comment the datasets print? was there a specific reason?

[zongzong]

That is useful, thanks! Showing FPS is important for my work.

[ikramessafi]

Thank you a lot for that video, but i want to know if o have an other object that i wanna detect like fruits how can i use this model to detect it?

[tristanrajendraa]

can yolo use for image classification and optimezer using adam, sgd, rmsprop?? my dataset is rice so i want yolo to detect it like it's basmathi rice or regular rice

[Kandy]

good afternoon! thank you for making this content available, it helped a lot. Do you happen to know if it would be possible to detect tree species in a native forest, with a drone orthomosaic?

[tranquynhat]

When I add photos to yolov7, I run the command
!python detect.py --weight yolov7.pt --conf 0.5 --img-size 640 --source m_caysi.jpg gives this error
python3: can't open file '/content/detect.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
. Do you have any way to fix it? Thank you. Fastest response please help me

[amirtarek]

I have a problem while training the model, the epoch suddenly stop while extracting certain batches and take around 25 mins to continue, what could lead to such a problem ? and how can i over come it ?

[LimChinHong-jufo]

good video sir, may I know that how to train the model on a batch of images and evaluate them all at once using things like mAP? thank you sir.

[abrarluvrabit]

if we want to show FPS on yolov5 and yolov6 do we need to follow the same thing as showed for yolov7 or not? if not then please make a video for FPS showing in yolov5 and 6 also it will be very helpfull. thanks

[azimbekkhudoyberdiev]

Thank you for best resources. How we can get mAP results for object detection in videos and collect them as a file?

[MinhazulAbedinMunna]

Here, Can we count the object from image ? it will be helpful

[sabrimas]

can you make a video on how to modify yaml architecture in yolov8? i'm doing research and want to add attention modules like GAM, CBAM and others but don't know where to start and when i change it, the called architecture configuration stays the same, and there is no change.

[anaghasm]

It would be really helpful if you could teach how to detect objects on Webcam using google colab.

[karlomarkovic]

Hi, thanks for the great tutorial. How could you measure the accuracy and get the metrics like mean average precision?
Could you do a tutorial on that?

[barbaralau]

Hi, Thank you for your video. I followed the steps. I got the test_batch0_labels.jpg in the last exp folder inside runs/detect folder. I can see the labels and boxes correctly surrounds the object in this image. Does it mean the training is successful or this is not the right place to look into? My question is I ran the detect.py command with the test image and best.pt, I didn't get back any boxes or labels at all. Can you please tell me why does it happen? If the test_batch0_labels.jpg exists, shall I expect this training is completed? or how to fix this problem? Thank you for your help!

[ajayreddykanduru]

Hi, can you please share how to take input from the webcam ?