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YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS

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Re: YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS

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EfficientDet was open sourced March 18 [1], YOLOv4 came out April 23 [2], and now YOLOv5 is out only 48 days later.

In our initial look, YOLOv5 is 180% faster, 88% smaller, similarly accurate, and easier to use (native to PyTorch rather thank Darknet) than YOLOv4.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/18/google-ai-open-sources-ef... [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10934

Re: YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS

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EfficientDet was open sourced March 18 [1], YOLOv4 came out April 23 [2], and now YOLOv5 is out only 48 days later. In our initial look, YOLOv5 is 180% faster, 88% smaller, similarly accurate, and easier to use (native to PyTorch rather thank Darknet) than YOLOv4. [1] https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/18/google-ai-open-sources-ef... [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10934

Those numbers are quite impressive.

YOLOv4 -> YOLOv5

Inference time: 20ms -> 7ms (on P100)

Frames per second: 50 -> 140

Size: 244mb -> 27 mb

Re: YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS

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Er so this "Ultralytics" consulting firm just borrowed the name YOLO for this model and didn't actually publish their results yet?

Yeah, they made the most popular PyTorch implementation of YOLOv3 as well so they're not entering out of the blue, though. https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3

The author of YOLOv3 quit working on Computer Vision due to ethical concerns. YOLOv4, which built on his work in v3, was released by different authors last month. I'd expect more YOLOvX's from different authors in the future. https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280

Re: YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS

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Just recently IBM announced with a loud PR move that the company is getting out of the face recognition business. Guess what? Wall Street doesn't want to keep subsidizing IBM's subpar face recognition technology when open source and Google solutions are pushing the state of the art.
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