Ultralytics Academy

Foundation pathwayFree

Foundation

Build the vocabulary, intuition, and first hands-on skills needed to ship modern computer vision with Ultralytics YOLO.

For: Open to all — recommended for every learner starting with computer vision and Ultralytics YOLO.

Certificate

Ultralytics Fundamentals Certified

Ultralytics YOLO object detection examples on a city street

beginner~3 hours

From the first image to the first model

Computer Vision Foundations

Build the vocabulary, intuition, and first hands-on reflexes for modern computer vision — tasks, datasets, metrics, and what they mean for a real product.

10 lessonsFinal exam · Certificate on pass

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Bounding boxes, polygons, masks, and keypoints across data annotation types

beginner~3 hours

From problem definition to training readiness

Building High-Performance YOLO Datasets

A beginner-friendly, enterprise-ready playbook for the steps before training: defining the problem, collecting representative data, labeling consistently, validating quality, splitting cleanly, and confirming readiness — so the first Ultralytics YOLO model you fine-tune actually performs.

10 lessonsFinal exam · Certificate on pass

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beginner~4 hours

From pip install to a custom-trained detector

Train your first YOLO model

Take Ultralytics YOLO from zero to a model trained on your own data — installation, the YOLO label format, training, evaluation, video inference, and export. Assumes a dataset that's already been planned, collected, labeled, and split (see *Building High-Performance YOLO Datasets* for that work).

10 lessonsFinal exam · Certificate on pass

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Practitioner pathwayFree

Practitioner

Take Ultralytics YOLO from a notebook to a deployed, observed, optimized system — and use Ultralytics Platform end-to-end.

For: Engineers shipping real-world vision systems to production.

Certificate

Ultralytics Practitioner

intermediate~5 hours

From best.pt to a real, observable, optimized system

Ultralytics YOLO in Production

Take a trained Ultralytics YOLO model out of the lab and into production — runtimes, optimization, tracking, multi-stream inference, and the observability you need to keep it healthy.

9 lessonsFinal exam · Certificate on pass

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