What is YOLO?

You Only Look Once (YOLO) is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection algorithm .

What makes YOLO popular?

• Speed
• Detection accuracy
• Good generalization
• Open-source

Google Colab is an excellent platform for running deep learning models due to its free access to GPUs and ease of use. This guide will walk you through the process of running the latest version, YOLOv10, on Google Colab.

Before You Start

To make sure that you have access to GPU. You can use nvidia-smi command to do that. In case of any problems navigate to Edit -> Notebook settings -> Hardware accelerator, set it to GPU, and then click Save.

!nvidia-smi

Install Required Packages

Clone the GitHub repository.

!git clone https://github.com/THU-MIG/yolov10.git

cd yolov10

!pip install .

Upload Data To Colab

Step 1: Mount Google Drive

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

Step 2: Upload Files Directly

from google.colab import files
uploaded = files.upload()

Step 3: Organize Data for YOLOv10

Images:

• The images directory contains subdirectories for train and val (validation) sets.
• Each subdirectory contains the corresponding images for training and validation.

Labels:

• The labels directory mirrors the images directory structure.
• Each text file in the labels/train and labels/val subdirectories contains the annotations for the corresponding images.

Annotations Format:

/my_dataset
  /images
    /train
      image1.jpg
      image2.jpg
      ...
    /val
      image1.jpg
      image2.jpg
      ...
  /labels
    /train
      image1.txt
      image2.txt
      ...
    /val
      image1.txt
      image2.txt
      ...
  data.yaml

Data Configuration File (data.yaml):

train: /content/my_dataset/images/train

val: /content/my_dataset/images/val

nc: N     # N for number of classes

names: ['class1', 'class2', ..., 'classN']

Download Pre-trained Weights

import os

import urllib.request

  
  
  Create a directory for the weights in the current working directory


weights_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "weights")

os.makedirs(weights_dir, exist_ok=True)

  
  
  URLs of the weight files


urls = [

    "https://github.com/jameslahm/yolov10/releases/download/v1.0/yolov10n.pt",

    "https://github.com/jameslahm/yolov10/releases/download/v1.0/yolov10s.pt",

    "https://github.com/jameslahm/yolov10/releases/download/v1.0/yolov10m.pt",

    "https://github.com/jameslahm/yolov10/releases/download/v1.0/yolov10b.pt",

    "https://github.com/jameslahm/yolov10/releases/download/v1.0/yolov10x.pt",

    "https://github.com/jameslahm/yolov10/releases/download/v1.0/yolov10l.pt"

]

  
  
  Download each file


for url in urls:

    file_name = os.path.join(weights_dir, os.path.basename(url))

    urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, file_name)

    print(f"Downloaded {file_name}")

Train Custom Model

!yolo task=detect mode=train epochs=100 batch=4 plots=True model=weights/yolov10n.pt data=data.yaml

Inference on Image

!yolo task=detect mode=predict conf=0.25 save=True model=runs/detect/train/weights/best.pt source=img.jpg

Inference on Video

!yolo task=detect mode=predict conf=0.25 save=True model=runs/detect/train/weights/best.pt source=video.mp4

Summary

This guide covers running YOLOv10 on Google Colab by setting up the environment, installing necessary libraries, and running inference with pre-trained weights. It also explains how to upload and organize data in Colab for YOLOv8, including the required directory structure and configuration files. These steps enable efficient training and inference for object detection models using Colab's resources.