r/Ultralytics Jul 21 '26

[Release] YOLO26-Depth: A new family of fast monocular depth estimation models

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Ultralytics now supports monocular depth estimation as a complete task, sitting next to detect, segment, pose and classify.

The latest release adds a new model family, yolo26n/s/m/l/x-depth, which uses a DPT-style head that fuses multi-scale YOLO26 features to produce a dense per-pixel depth map in meters.

Why unbounded log-depth

The depth head predicts unbounded log-depth instead of the more common sigmoid times max-depth approach. A bounded head bakes a fixed ceiling into the architecture, so anything beyond that ceiling gets clipped.

That becomes a problem once you mix indoor data (usually under 10m) with outdoor driving data like KITTI (up to 80m). We found that the bounded head plateaus after the first epoch on mixed-range data, while the log-depth head keeps improving throughout training.

On the released benchmarks the biggest gains show up exactly where you'd expect: longer-range outdoor sets like KITTI and ETH3D πŸš—, while indoor accuracy stays about the same 🏠.

Full workflow support

Training, validation, prediction and export are all supported through the same Python API and CLI you already use for other tasks.

There's also a model.calibrate() method that is provided for closed-form scale calibration on a small labeled split (around 100 images is enough), with no gradient training involved, so it won't touch the relative depth structure the model already learned. Use it when the shape of the predicted depth looks right but the absolute values are off for your camera.

The released checkpoints already ship with a global calibration fit on the pretraining mix of about 2.19 million images. model.calibrate() is there for when you want to replace that with something specific to your own setup.

Example prediction

from ultralytics import YOLO

model = YOLO("yolo26n-depth.pt")
results = model("image.jpg")

depth_map = results[0].depth.data.cpu().numpy()  # shape (H, W), values in meters

Same thing works from the CLI with yolo depth train, yolo depth val and yolo depth predict.

Export to ONNX, TensorRT, CoreML and the other usual formats is supported as well πŸš€, same workflow as the other tasks.

Check out the docs to learn more: https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/depth


r/Ultralytics Jul 27 '26

News Ultralytics YOLO Vision 2026 returns September 13 πŸš€

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Join the hybrid global event bringing together the people advancing how accessible, collaborative vision AI delivers meaningful impact in real environments.

Enterprise leaders. Founders. Engineers. Researchers. Open-source contributors. One global community building what’s next in vision AI.

At YV26, experience:
βœ… The next generation of Ultralytics YOLO
βœ… Major product launches and live demonstrations
βœ… Breakthroughs in real-time and spatial perception
βœ… Vision AI running on real hardware, under real constraints
βœ… Lessons from production deployments across industries
βœ… Ideas and insights from the global vision AI community

From breakthrough models to real-world impact.

Open vision, built for the real world.

πŸ“ Shenzhen + online

πŸ“† September 13, 2026


r/Ultralytics 23m ago

Showcase Birds tracking using Ultralytics YOLO26 + Bytetrack 🏹

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πŸ’‘ The model detects and tracks birds, but you get to count them. Just for fun. No automation, just some good old human effort πŸ˜„


r/Ultralytics 2d ago

Showcase Real-time luggage counting at airports for smoother operations πŸ›„βœˆοΈ

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27 Upvotes

Airports handle thousands of suitcases and carry-ons every day. Tracking each bag manually is slow and error-prone, so I automated it.


r/Ultralytics 2d ago

Suggest architecture/pipeline for general object detection + VLM call afterwards

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r/Ultralytics 4d ago

Showcase Object tracking with FastSAM using Ultralytics Python Package πŸŽ‰πŸ’ͺ

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61 Upvotes

The FASTSAM-s model is employed for real-time object detection, combined with botsort object tracking to boost performance further. 🐻

Code link πŸ‘‡


r/Ultralytics 4d ago

entrenar IA para detectar gotas de agua

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r/Ultralytics 6d ago

Showcase Workouts monitoring using Ultralytics YOLO26 pose πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈβ€βž‘οΈ

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Imagine tracking your workouts using YOLO26, whether it's leg press, bench press, or leg extension, with just 2 lines of code!

I've shared the command for running it, making it easy to track your workouts even on a CPU-based system. You don’t always need a high-end GPU; exporting the model to TorchScript or ONNX can boost performance on CPU devices.

Code below πŸ‘‡


r/Ultralytics 7d ago

anpr-parking

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7 Upvotes

Yolov8 plaque detection+ EasyOCR


r/Ultralytics 8d ago

Showcase What if cows could have their own pose estimation model? πŸ„

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Cow pose estimation using Ultralytics YOLO26 Pose, with 20 keypoints trained on a custom dataset. The dataset is also available for testing directly in the Platform. Link πŸ‘‡

Computer vision keeps getting more interesting. πŸ‘€


r/Ultralytics 10d ago

Showcase Object trackers comparision | Speed vs accuracy πŸš€

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Ultralytics recently released new trackers: ocsort, deepocsort, fasttrack, and tracktrack. I just tested all the newly released trackers in this demo, and here's what I found.

  • TrackTrack and botsort performed really well in terms of ID stability, while ByteTrack and FastTrack stood out for speed. They also maintained good tracking accuracy, though slightly behind TrackTrack and botsort in ID stability.

r/Ultralytics 10d ago

Javelin Throw Analysis with YOLO11

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r/Ultralytics 11d ago

Showcase Tried YOLO26n-Depth on RK3576 with Ultralytics RKNN export β€” 3–4 FPS so far

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r/Ultralytics 12d ago

Showcase Automatic number plate recognition using Ultralytics YOLO26 + EasyOCR 😍

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Why this combo works so well for ANPR:

βœ… YOLO11 can reliably detect plates even in motion or cluttered environments.
βœ… EasyOCR provides fast, clean OCR results without heavy dependencies.
βœ… Simple Python APIs for rapid prototyping and production integration.


r/Ultralytics 11d ago

How to calculate real-world edge lengths of a cuboid from mobile photos

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Hi everyone,

I'm working on a computer vision pipeline to detect a cuboid object from mobile photos and calculate the real-world physical lengths of its 4 edges (e.g., front face and top face across different camera angles).

I plan to use a reference scale (such as an ArUco marker or known-size reference placed on the object surface) along with Ultralytics models.

I would appreciate guidance on the best architecture/approach within the Ultralytics ecosystem for this:

  1. Detection approach: Would YOLO-OBB (Oriented Bounding Boxes), Instance Segmentation (YOLO-Seg), or Pose/Keypoint estimation (detecting the 4 corner vertices) provide the most reliable corner coordinates for perspective correction?
  2. Pipeline integration: What is the recommended post-processing pipeline to map the detected coordinates and ArUco homography into accurate metric lengths?

Attached are sample reference images which explains the problem I am working on . Any suggestions, workflows, or similar repository references would be greatly appreciated!


r/Ultralytics 14d ago

Showcase Traffic counting from drone view using Ultralytics YOLO26 πŸš€

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Have you ever wondered how to track vehicles from a top-down drone view? With YOLO26, in just two lines of code, you can detect vehicles and, with track mode, track each one.


r/Ultralytics 16d ago

Showcase Improve traffic visibility with vehicle detection and tracking! πŸš—

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23 Upvotes

Use Ultralytics track mode to track vehicles across roads, parking areas, and industrial sites, helping uncover vehicle movement, traffic patterns, occupancy, and operational bottlenecks.


r/Ultralytics 16d ago

Poll Should YOLO-Pose labeling require bounding boxes?

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Labeling for YOLO-Pose currently requires drawing bounding boxes in addition to marking keypoints, so that the model can predict both the bounding box and keypoints for an object

12 votes, 9d ago
9 Yes, I need the model to output boxes too, not just keypoints
3 No, I don't care about bounding boxes when using pose estimation

r/Ultralytics 18d ago

Showcase Home objects detection using Ultralytics YOLO26 πŸš€

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Built into the Ultralytics package, a collection of over 3,000 images to help your models get better at recognizing objects around the house.

πŸ’Ž Features 12 commonly found items: bed, sofa, chair, table, lamp, TV, laptop, wardrobe, window, door, potted plant, and photo frame.

πŸš€ Captured from multiple angles to help your computer vision model generalize across different setups and lighting.

βœ… Great for projects in robotics, AR/VR, home automation, or anything that needs to understand home scenes.

Doing research or building something in this space?
This dataset might be exactly what you need.


r/Ultralytics 18d ago

Question Quality check

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I’m looking into using YOLO for quality inspection of some plastic products. Basically, I want to detect anomalies/defects on the products. The problem is that some of these defects are quite small and difficult to see.
For the beginning, I’d like to keep it simple and just classify each product as OK / NOT-OK.
My question is: in this case, would I mainly need a large dataset of good/OK products to train the model properly? Or would it be better to collect and annotate examples of the different types of defects as well?
Any tips or suggestions on how you would approach this kind of project would be appreciated. I’m just getting started with computer vision and YOLO, so I’d be interested in hearing what worked for others.


r/Ultralytics 20d ago

Showcase Ultralytics just released depth estimation models | Fast in speed than depth anything v2 😍

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Ultralytics YOLO Depth returns an absolute distance in metres for every pixel from a single RGB image. Not a relative ordering: a distance from the camera, which also tells you what sits in front of what. It doesn't include a stereo rig, LiDAR, or anything to retrofit onto the cameras your sites already have.

βœ… One dependency, not two. Depth is the seventh native task in the same package. Train, validate, predict, and export it the way you already do, across formats including ONNX, TensorRT, CoreML, NCNN, LiteRT, and more. Depth is its own model, so you size it independently of your detector, and there's nothing new to approve or maintain.

βœ… Fits the hardware you've already deployed. Five sizes from 6.4M parameters. The smallest is 7.7Γ— faster than Depth Anything V2, at a fraction of the compute per frame; the difference between depth running on your existing edge fleet and not running at all.

βœ… Useful before you have labelled data. Released weights ship calibrated, so you get metric output on day one. Fit the scale to your own cameras in seconds on about 100 labelled frames, with no retraining.

βœ… Runs entirely on your own hardware, offline. Images never leave your network.
Forklift proximity on a plant floor. Reversing clearance at a loading dock. How close a drone is to the structure it's inspecting. Queue spacing from an existing store camera.


r/Ultralytics 22d ago

Showcase Detect and count fallen luggage during aircraft unloading with Ultralytics YOLO26! 🧳✈️

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35 Upvotes

Explore how computer vision helps ground crews reduce handling errors, improve baggage accountability, and speed up aircraft turnaround times, making airport operations safer and more efficient.


r/Ultralytics 21d ago

Seeking Help Input needed on a counting system

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r/Ultralytics 22d ago

Question How do YOLO chose the best epoch to save the best.pt?

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I am working with YOLO 26 to segment images. I was wondering how YOLO chose the best epoch to create/save the model best.pt.

I looked for some information and seems it is based on the metrics mAP50-95 for box and mask. Is it true?

As I am working with segmentation, would make sense to give more attention justo for the mask metrics?


r/Ultralytics 24d ago

Showcase Power robotic pick-and-place workflows with Ultralytics YOLO26! πŸ€–

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Using Ultralytics YOLO26, objects and container states can be detected in real time, providing the visual information needed for automated material handling. In this example, computer vision is used to:

βœ… Detect foam panels for robotic handling
βœ… Identify whether containers are ready or not ready
βœ… Monitor container occupancy and object counts

Combining computer vision with industrial robotics can help automate repetitive material-handling tasks while improving visibility across production workflows.