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Use case Need
Model evaluation See what the model detected
Debugging Verify detection accuracy
Reporting Create annotated images for review
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Model Size Speed Accuracy
yolox_nano 0.9M Fastest Lower
yolox_tiny 5.1M Fast Good
yolox_s 9.0M Medium Better
yolox_m 25.3M Slower High
yolox_l 54.2M Slow Higher
`]; Draw bounding boxes on images to visualize object detection results. ## Problem You’ve run object detection on images but need to visualize the results—see where objects were detected and verify the model’s accuracy.
## Solution **What’s in this recipe:** * Run object detection with YOLOX * Draw bounding boxes on images * Color-code by object class You create a pipeline that detects objects and then draws the results on the original image. ### Setup ```python theme={null} %pip install -qU pixeltable pixeltable-yolox ``` ```python theme={null} import pixeltable as pxt from pixeltable.functions.vision import bboxes_draw from pixeltable.functions.yolox import yolox ``` ```python theme={null} # Create a fresh directory pxt.drop_dir('viz_demo', force=True) pxt.create_dir('viz_demo') ``` 
  Connected to Pixeltable database at: postgresql+psycopg://postgres:@/pixeltable?host=/Users/pjlb/.pixeltable/pgdata
  Created directory 'viz\_demo'.
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### Create detection and visualization pipeline ```python theme={null} # Create table for images images = pxt.create_table('viz_demo/images', {'image': pxt.Image}) ``` 
  Created table 'images'.
```python theme={null} # Step 1: Run object detection images.add_computed_column( detections=yolox(images.image, model_id='yolox_m', threshold=0.5) ) ``` 
  Added 0 column values with 0 errors.
  No rows affected.
```python theme={null} # Step 2: Draw bounding boxes on the image # Note: bboxes_draw takes image, boxes, and labels (scores are not used for drawing) images.add_computed_column( annotated=bboxes_draw( images.image, images.detections.bboxes, labels=images.detections.labels, ) ) ``` 
  Added 0 column values with 0 errors.
  No rows affected.
### Detect and visualize ```python theme={null} # Insert sample images base_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/main/docs/resources/images' image_urls = [ f'{base_url}/000000000036.jpg', # cats f'{base_url}/000000000139.jpg', # elephants ] images.insert([{'image': url} for url in image_urls]) ``` 
  Inserting rows into \`images\`: 0 rows \[00:00, ? rows/s]
  Inserting rows into \`images\`: 2 rows \[00:00, 236.29 rows/s]
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  2 rows inserted, 8 values computed.
```python theme={null} # View original vs annotated images side by side images.select(images.image, images.annotated).collect() ```
```python theme={null} # View detection details images.select(images.detections).collect() ```
## Explanation **Pipeline flow:** 
  Image → YOLOX detection → Bounding boxes + labels → bboxes\_draw → Annotated image
**Detection output format:** The `yolox` function returns a dict with: * `bboxes` - List of \[x1, y1, x2, y2] coordinates * `labels` - List of class names (e.g., “cat”, “dog”) * `scores` - List of confidence scores (0-1) **YOLOX model options:**
## See also * [Detect objects in images](/howto/cookbooks/images/img-detect-objects) - Object detection basics * [Extract video frames](/howto/cookbooks/video/video-extract-frames) - Detect objects in video Built with [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com).