Highlights

• Support Objects365 Dataset and Separated and Occluded COCO metric
• Support acceleration of RetinaNet and SSD on Ascend
• Deprecate the support of Python 3.6

New Features and Improvements

• Support Objects365 Dataset (#7525)
• Support Separated and Occluded COCO metric (#9574)
• Support acceleration of RetinaNet and SSD on Ascend with documentation (#9648, #9614)
• Added missing - to --format-only in documentation.

Deprecations

• Upgrade the minimum Python version to 3.7, the support of Python 3.6 is no longer guaranteed (#9604)

Bug Fixes

• Fix validation loss logging by (#9663)
• Fix inconsistent float precision between mmdet and mmcv (#9570)
• Fix argument name for fp32 in DeformableDETRHead (#9607)
• Fix typo of all config file path in Metafile.yml (#9627)

Contributors

A total of 11 developers contributed to this release. Thanks @eantono, @akstt, @@lpizzinidev, @RangiLyu, @kbumsik, @tianleiSHI, @nijkah, @BIGWangYuDong, @wangjiangben-hw, @@jamiechoi1995, @ZwwWayne

New Contributors

• @kbumsik made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9627
• @akstt made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9614
• @lpizzinidev made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9649
• @eantono made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/pull/9663

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/compare/v2.27.0...v2.28.0