Fine-tuned YOLOv11s object detector for aerial imagery using the VisDrone benchmark dataset.
This model is part of the
VisDrone Detection Model Zoo
, a collection of YOLO models trained and evaluated under a common pipeline for aerial object detection.
Detection Showcase
Performance
Metric
Score (%)
mAP@50
32.3
mAP@50-95
18.47
Precision
45.49
Recall
35.31
F1 Score
39.76
Parameters
9.5M
FLOPs
21.7B
Evaluation Protocol
Metrics reported in this model card are computed on the VisDrone test set with ground-truth annotations available for evaluation.
VisDrone Model Zoo
Rank
Model
mAP@50
mAP@50-95
Precision
Recall
1
YOLOv9e
40.02
23.73
54.78
42.42
2
YOLOv11x
38.44
22.6
52.41
41.43
3
YOLOv26x
38.33
22.48
52.91
41.06
4
YOLOv11l
37.14
21.85
51.87
40.33
5
YOLOv10x
37.24
21.81
52.59
39.84
6
YOLOv26l
37.65
21.75
51.6
40.42
7
YOLOv9c
37.22
21.73
51.99
39.77
8
YOLOv8x
36.81
21.52
51.91
39.78
9
YOLOv26m
36.67
21.22
51.03
39.79
10
YOLOv10l
35.95
21.09
52.13
38.48
11
YOLOv11m
36.35
21.02
50.24
39.46
12
YOLOv9m
36.19
20.95
51.05
39.12
13
YOLOv8m
34.39
19.95
48.18
38.2
14
YOLOv9s
33.52
19.26
46.16
37.43
15
YOLOv11s
32.3
18.47
45.49
35.31
16
YOLOv8s
31.95
18.24
45.99
35.49
17
YOLOv26s
32.1
18.06
45.75
35.05
18
YOLOv9t
29.09
16.22
42.57
32.66
19
YOLOv8n
28.18
15.77
40.86
31.81
20
YOLOv11n
27.59
15.46
39.58
31.74
21
YOLOv10n
27.65
15.32
41.02
31.68
22
YOLOv26n
26.73
14.64
38.6
31.14
23
rt_detr_l
21.68
9.34
35.76
26.3
Per-Class Performance
Class
mAP@50
mAP@50-95
pedestrian
27.96
10.85
people
14.18
4.7
bicycle
9.67
3.88
car
72.41
45.27
van
37.48
24.44
truck
40.54
25.64
tricycle
18.19
9.71
awning-tricycle
17.61
10.06
bus
55.59
38.77
motor
29.33
11.39
Evaluation Visualizations
Precision-Recall Curve
F1 Curve
Confusion Matrix
Dataset
VisDrone is a large-scale benchmark for object detection in aerial imagery captured from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
The dataset contains diverse scenes including:
Urban environments
Residential areas
Traffic intersections
Crowded pedestrian regions
Classes
pedestrian
people
bicycle
car
van
truck
tricycle
awning-tricycle
bus
motor
Usage
Install Dependencies
pip install ultralytics huggingface_hub
Load Model from Hugging Face
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from ultralytics import YOLO
weights = hf_hub_download(
repo_id="dronefreak/yolov11s-visdrone",
filename="best.pt"
)
model = YOLO(weights)
These models were trained using the VisDrone Dataset Python Toolkit, an open-source framework for aerial object detection research and benchmarking on the VisDrone dataset.
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Known Limitations
Performance may degrade in:
Extremely dense crowds
Heavy occlusions
Severe motion blur
Very small objects occupying only a few pixels
Night-time or low-light aerial imagery
Citation
If you use this model in your research, please consider citing:
The VisDrone dataset
The original YOLO architecture
The VisDrone Detection Toolkit
@article{visdrone2019,
title={Vision Meets Drones: A Challenge},
author={Zhu, Pengfei and Wen, Longyin and Du, Dawei and Bian, Xiao and Ling, Haibin and Hu, Qinghua},
journal={International Journal of Computer Vision},
year={2021}
}
@software{Saksena_VisDrone_Detection_Toolkit_2025,
author = {Saksena, Saumya Kumaar},
title = {VisDrone Detection Toolkit: Modern PyTorch Implementation for Aerial Object Detection},
url = {https://github.com/dronefreak/VisDrone-dataset-python-toolkit},
version = {2.0.0},
year = {2025}
}
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