LightlyTrain 0.12.0: Introducing LTDETR DINOv3 Object Detection Models

LightlyTrain now supports the full object detection model training pipeline: from pretraining on unlabeled data, to supervised fine-tuning, and inference. Built on top of DINOv3, the models achieve excellent detection performance and are easy to fine-tune on any dataset.

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LTDETR Models

LightlyTrain 0.12.0 introduces four new LTDETR models based on the DINOv3 ConvNeXt backbones, ranging from the tiny size with 60M parameters to large with 230M parameters. The models achieve excellent results on the COCO dataset and the trained model weights are readily available for inference and fine-tuning.

Pro tip

For more information, check out LightlyTrain Object Detection Docs.

Why Use LTDETR in LightlyTrain

  • Simplicity: The models are extremely simple to train on new datasets and require only minimal fine-tuning thanks to the strong DINOv3 backbones.
  • Seamless pipeline: With LightlyTrain, you can pretrain and fine-tune your model in a unified framework with minimal code.
  • Flexibility: LTDETR supports ViT and ConvNeXt backbones with different sizes depending on your use-case

Getting started with LTDETR only requires a few lines of code:

import lightly_train

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Train
    lightly_train.train_object_detection(
        out="out/my_experiment",
        model="dinov3/convnext-tiny-ltdetr-coco",
        data={
            "path": "base_path_to_your_dataset",
            "train": "images/train2012",
            "val": "images/val2012",
            "names": {
                0: "person",
                1: "bicycle",
                # ...
            },
        }
    )

    # Load model
    model = lightly_train.load_model("dinov3/convnext-tiny-ltdetr-coco")

    # Predict
    prediction = model.predict("image.jpg")

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Ready to try it? Head over to the LightlyTrain docs to start experimenting: 👉Object Detection Docs

Stay tuned for more updates including smaller and faster models!

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