A fast object detection algorithm – YOLO

While the acronym may make you smile, YOLO is one of the fastest object detection algorithms available. The latest version, YOLOv3, can run at more than 170 frames per second (FPS) on a modern GPU for an image size of 256 × 256. In this section, we will introduce the theoretical concept behind its architecture.

Introducing YOLO

First released in 2015, YOLO outperformed almost all other object detection architectures, both in terms of speed and accuracy. Since then, the architecture has been improved several times. In this chapter, we will draw our knowledge from the following three papers:

• You Only Look Once: Unified, real-time object detection (2015), Joseph Redmon, Santosh...