Object Detection
ultralytics
PyTorch
detectionbench
computer-vision
low-light
night-images
dark-images
robustness
Eval Results (legacy)
Instructions to use dronefreak/exdark-yolov9m with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- ultralytics
How to use dronefreak/exdark-yolov9m with ultralytics:
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download from ultralytics import YOLO # pick the weights file from this repo's "Files and versions" tab weights = hf_hub_download("dronefreak/exdark-yolov9m", "<weights>.pt") model = YOLO(weights) source = 'http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg' model.predict(source=source, save=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
Add model-index metadata (HF Evaluation Results widget)
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README.md
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base_model: "Ultralytics/YOLOv9"
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Every model DetectionBench has trained and evaluated on ExDark so far, for full transparency -- see [DetectionBench](https://github.com/dronefreak/DetectionBench) for the smaller, curated comparison set used on the project README.
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## Per-Class Performance
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```bibtex
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@software{Saksena_DetectionBench_2026,
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author = {Saksena, Saumya Kumaar},
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base_model: "Ultralytics/YOLOv9"
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- name: YOLOv9m Finetuned on ExDark
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type: object-detection
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name: Object Detection
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dataset:
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name: ExDark
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type: exdark
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metrics:
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value: 74.17
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value: 47.38
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name: mAP@50-95 (test split)
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url: https://github.com/dronefreak/DetectionBench
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name: DetectionBench
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Every model DetectionBench has trained and evaluated on ExDark so far, for full transparency -- see [DetectionBench](https://github.com/dronefreak/DetectionBench) for the smaller, curated comparison set used on the project README.
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| Model | mAP@50 | mAP@50-95 | Precision | Recall |
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| RF-DETR Small | 88.98 | 61.67 | 83.07 | 81.89 |
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| RF-DETR Medium | 88.64 | 62.55 | 86.6 | 79.46 |
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| RF-DETR Nano | 85.27 | 58.01 | 85.18 | 74.67 |
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| YOLOv26l | 77.51 | 50.88 | 80.71 | 70.72 |
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| YOLOv26m | 76.54 | 50.02 | 82.29 | 68.83 |
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| YOLOv11x | 74.41 | 48.98 | 81.87 | 67.05 |
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| YOLOv9m | 74.17 | 47.38 | 76.27 | 67.94 |
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## Per-Class Performance
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@article{Exdark,
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title = {Getting to Know Low-light Images with The Exclusively Dark Dataset},
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Other architectures compared against on ExDark in this model card:
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### RF-DETR
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title = {RF-DETR: Real-Time Detection Transformer},
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author = {Robinson, Isaac and Robicheaux, Peter and Popov, Matvei and Ramanan, Deva and Peri, Neehar},
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booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
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url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09554}
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@article{oquab2023dinov2,
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title={DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision},
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author={Oquab, Maxime and Darcet, Timoth{\'e}e and Moutakanni, Theo and Vo, Huy and Szafraniec, Marc and Khalidov, Vasil and Fernandez, Pierre and Haziza, Daniel and Massa, Francisco and El-Nouby, Alaaeldin and others},
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```bibtex
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title={YOLOv11: An Overview of the Key Architectural Enhancements},
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```bibtex
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title={Ultralytics YOLO26: Unified Real-Time End-to-End Vision Models},
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author={Jocher, Glenn and Qiu, Jing and Liu, Mengyu and Lyu, Shuai and Akyon, Fatih Cagatay and Kalfaoglu, Muhammet Esat},
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journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.03748},
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```bibtex
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No official YOLOv8 research paper has been published by Ultralytics; this is their own recommended software citation instead:
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@software{jocher2023yolov8,
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author = {Glenn Jocher and Ayush Chaurasia and Jing Qiu},
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title = {Ultralytics YOLOv8},
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version = {8.0.0},
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year = {2023},
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url = {https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics},
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license = {AGPL-3.0}
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```bibtex
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@software{Saksena_DetectionBench_2026,
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author = {Saksena, Saumya Kumaar},
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