Gemini 2.5 Object Detection: A Surprisingly Good Match for YOLOv3?
This benchmark tests Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro multimodal large language model on object detection. Using the MS-COCO dataset, the focus is on bounding box accuracy. Results show Gemini 2.5 Pro achieves a mean Average Precision (mAP) of roughly 0.34, comparable to YOLOv3 from 2018, but significantly behind state-of-the-art models at ~0.60 mAP. While Gemini's versatility across open-ended tasks is impressive, CNNs remain faster, cheaper, and easier to reason about, especially with good training data.
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