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YOLOv7 - Instance Segmentation

YOLOv7 is an object detection model that introduced several architectural improvements over YOLOv5. The instance segmentation variant provides pixel-level masks for detected objects.

Overview

YOLOv7 for instance segmentation offers improved accuracy and speed compared to earlier YOLO versions. Key features include:

  • E-ELAN architecture - Efficient Layer Aggregation Network for better feature extraction
  • Pixel-level masks - Detailed segmentation for each detected object
  • Improved accuracy - Better performance than YOLOv5 on many datasets
  • Fast inference - Optimized for real-time applications
  • Multiple backends - ONNX and TensorRT support

License

AGPL-3.0

License Notice

YOLOv7 is licensed under AGPL-3.0. This is a copyleft license that requires you to open-source any modifications or derivative works, and any software that uses YOLOv7 must also be open-sourced under AGPL-3.0.

Roboflow does not provide commercial licensing for YOLOv7. If you need to use YOLOv7 commercially without open-sourcing your code, you must obtain a license directly from the YOLOv7 authors or consider using a different model architecture.

For commercial-friendly alternatives, consider: - RF-DETR Seg (Apache 2.0) - Faster and more accurate - YOLOv8 Seg (AGPL-3.0, but Roboflow provides commercial licensing) - YOLOv11 Seg (AGPL-3.0, but Roboflow provides commercial licensing)

Pre-trained Model IDs

YOLOv7 instance segmentation models must be trained on Roboflow or uploaded as custom weights. There are no pre-trained public model IDs available.

Custom model ID format: project-url/version (e.g., my-project-abc123/2)

Supported Backends

Backend Extras Required
onnx onnx-cpu, onnx-cu12, onnx-cu118, onnx-jp6-cu126

Roboflow Platform Compatibility

Feature Supported
Training ✅ Train custom models on Roboflow
Upload Weights ✅ Upload pre-trained weights (guide)
Serverless API (v2) Deploy via hosted API
Workflows ✅ Use in Workflows via Instance Segmentation block
Edge Deployment (Jetson) ✅ Deploy on NVIDIA Jetson devices
Self-Hosting ✅ Deploy with inference-models

Usage Example

import cv2
import supervision as sv
from inference_models import AutoModel

# Load your custom model (requires Roboflow API key)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    "my-project-abc123/2",
    api_key="your_roboflow_api_key"
)
image = cv2.imread("path/to/image.jpg")

# Run inference
predictions = model(image)
detections = predictions[0].to_supervision()

# Annotate image with masks
mask_annotator = sv.MaskAnnotator()
annotated_image = mask_annotator.annotate(image.copy(), detections)

# Save or display
cv2.imwrite("annotated.jpg", annotated_image)