Highlights

• Support training on NPU (#9267)

Bug Fixes

• Fix RPN visualization (#9151)
• Fix readthedocs by freezing the dependency versions (#9154)
• Fix device argument error in MMDet_Tutorial.ipynb (#9112)
• Fix solov2 cannot dealing with empty gt image (#9185)
• Fix random flipping ratio comparison of mixup image (#9336)

Improvements

• Complement necessary argument of seg_suffix of cityscapes (#9330)
• Support copy paste based on bbox when there is no gt mask (#8905)
• Make scipy as a default dependency in runtime (#9186)

Documents

• Delete redundant Chinese characters in docs (#9175)
• Add MMEval in README (#9217)

Contributors

A total of 11 developers contributed to this release. Thanks @wangjiangben-hw, @motokimura, @AdorableJiang, @BainOuO, @JarvisKevin, @wanghonglie, @zytx121, @BIGWangYuDong, @hhaAndroid, @RangiLyu, @ZwwWayne

New Contributors

• @JarvisKevin made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/8905
• @BainOuO made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9175
• @wangjiangben-hw made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9267
• @AdorableJiang made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9330
• @motokimura made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9336

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/compare/v2.25.3...v2.26.0