Real-Time Detection Transformer (RT-DETR) ========================================= .. code-block:: python from kornia.io import load_image from kornia.models.detector.rtdetr import RTDETRDetectorBuilder input_img = load_image(img_path)[None] # Load image to BCHW # NOTE: available models: 'rtdetr_r18vd', 'rtdetr_r34vd', 'rtdetr_r50vd_m', 'rtdetr_r50vd', 'rtdetr_r101vd'. # NOTE: recommended image scales: [480, 512, 544, 576, 608, 640, 640, 640, 672, 704, 736, 768, 800] detector = RTDETRDetectorBuilder.build("rtdetr_r18vd", image_size=640) # get the output boxes boxes = detector(input_img) # draw the bounding boxes on the images directly. output = detector.draw(input_img, output_type="pil") output[0].save("Kornia-RTDETR-output.png") # convert the whole model to ONNX directly RTDETRDetectorBuilder.to_onnx("RTDETR-640.onnx", model_name="rtdetr_r18vd", image_size=640) .. card:: :link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08069 **RT-DETR** ^^^ **Abstract:** Recently, end-to-end transformer-based detectors (DETRs) have achieved remarkable performance. However, the issue of the high computational cost of DETRs has not been effectively addressed, limiting their practical application and preventing them from fully exploiting the benefits of no post-processing, such as non-maximum suppression (NMS). In this paper, we first analyze the influence of NMS in modern real-time object detectors on inference speed, and establish an end-to-end speed benchmark. To avoid the inference delay caused by NMS, we propose a Real-Time DEtection TRansformer (RT-DETR), the first real-time end-to-end object detector to our best knowledge. Specifically, we design an efficient hybrid encoder to efficiently process multi-scale features by decoupling the intra-scale interaction and cross-scale fusion, and propose IoU-aware query selection to improve the initialization of object queries. In addition, our proposed detector supports flexibly adjustment of the inference speed by using different decoder layers without the need for retraining, which facilitates the practical application of real-time object detectors. Our RT-DETR-L achieves 53.0% AP on COCO val2017 and 114 FPS on T4 GPU, while RT-DETR-X achieves 54.8% AP and 74 FPS, outperforming all YOLO detectors of the same scale in both speed and accuracy. Furthermore, our RT-DETR-R50 achieves 53.1% AP and 108 FPS, outperforming DINO-Deformable-DETR-R50 by 2.2% AP in accuracy and by about 21 times in FPS. Source code and pretrained models will be available at PaddleDetection. **Tasks:** Detection **Datasets:** MS-COCO **Licence:** Apache 2.0 +++ **Authors:** Wenyu Lv, Shangliang Xu, Yian Zhao, Guanzhong Wang, Jinman Wei, Cheng Cui, Yuning Du, Qingqing Dang, Yi Liu