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YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection

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Interesting this is trending now. We have actually just recently released an improved version of YoloV3 (called G-Darknet) https://github.com/generalized-iou/g-darknet, using GIoU as a loss, which is described here: https://giou.stanford.edu Also notable in G-Darknet are some tools useful for training (called darkboard), see https://github.com/generalized-iou/g-darknet/tree/master/dar...

natvert·320-point thread·

Hypothesis: All demos are improved with the addition of dragonforce.

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2

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500

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2015-06-16Real-Time Object Detection With YOLOpjreddie130
2017-01-18Real-Time Object Detection in Videos with Neural Networksmoritzsimon10
2017-03-02YOLO – Real-Time Object DetectionThomPete20
2017-04-13YOLO: Real-Time Object Detectionhellerve30
2017-08-20YOLO: Real-Time Object DetectionFirst breakoutgolanggeek16143
2019-04-02YOLO: Real-Time Object DetectionBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnheadalgorithm32061