First impressions are that this model is extremely good - the "zero-shot" text prompted detection is a huge step ahead of what we've seen before (both compared to older zero-shot detection models and to recent general purpose VLMs like Gemini and Qwen). With human supervision I think it's even at the point of being a useful teacher model.
I put together a YOLO tune for climbing hold detection a while back (trained on 10k labels) and this is 90% as good out of the box - just misses some foot chips and low contrast wood holds, and can't handle as many instances. It would've saved me a huge amount of manual annotation though.
I put together a YOLO tune for climbing hold detection a while back (trained on 10k labels) and this is 90% as good out of the box - just misses some foot chips and low contrast wood holds, and can't handle as many instances. It would've saved me a huge amount of manual annotation though.