BaiduReleased Apr 2023Apache 2.0
RT-DETR
We don't benchmark RT-DETR.
It is an open-weight model from Baidu under the Apache 2.0 license, and free for commercial use.
RT-DETR Overview
RT-DETR (Real-Time Detection Transformer) is an object detection model developed by Baidu, released in April 2023 under the Apache 2.0 license. It is the first transformer-based real-time object detector, addressing the inference speed limitations of earlier DETR models through an efficient hybrid encoder that decouples intra-scale interaction and cross-scale fusion, enabling the model to process multi-scale features without the high computational overhead of standard transformer encoders.
RT-DETR License
Apache-2.0 · Permissive licenseRT-DETR is released under the Apache 2.0 license, so it's commercially usable out of the box: you can ship it in closed-source, commercial products, including self-hosted deployments, without paying a license fee or open-sourcing your code. The RT-DETR license is permissive, so no separate commercial license is required.
- Commercial use
- Permitted. Because Apache-2.0 is permissive, RT-DETR can ship inside paid products and internal systems with no commercial license and no revenue threshold.
- Modification
- Permitted. Fine-tuning, quantizing, and distilling are all allowed, and your code changes can stay closed. Files you change must be marked as changed.
- Redistribution
- Permitted with attribution. Ship the Apache-2.0 license text and any NOTICE file alongside the weights or derived code.
Apache-2.0 grants an express patent license that terminates if you bring a patent claim over the work, and it disclaims warranties. Validate RT-DETR on your own data before you depend on it in production.
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