YOLO: ain't that from the 2010s? THINK AGAIN. Its all about forcing electrocuted sand to see what stuff is in photos and video, like cats and skateboards.

Boring? Don't be so fast to judge! You can do some REALLY cool stuff with a bit of YOLO magic.

Catch up with the rest of this series here:

Part 1:    • My Raspberry Pi drone: the story so far  
Part 2:    • Stereo depth mapping with OpenCV and ...  
Part 3: (this video)
Part 4:    • Meet Stanley, my NVIDIA Jetson Nano d...  
Part 5:    • Teaching my custom AI drone to track ...  

In this video, I'm covering:

- What the heck is YOLO?
- History of YOLO
- Performance tests

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - The release of YOLO
01:26 - Inject more YOLO into my veins
01:55 - Into the multiverse
03:01 - Outdoor distance tests
04:59 - Inference speed on different hardware
05:49 - Speed up by scaling down
06:18 - Wrapping up

🌐 Links

YOLO
https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

YOLO vs R-CNN
https://towardsdatascience.com/r-cnn-...

Controversy over YOLOv5
https://blog.roboflow.com/yolov4-vers...

Benchmarks
  / yolov4-vs-yolov4-tiny  
  / yolo3-a-huge-improvement  
  / yolov4-the-most-accurate-real-time-neural-...  

Timeline
https://towardsdatascience.com/yolo-v...

Repositories
YOLO thru YOLOv3: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet
YOLOv4: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet
YOLOv5: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5
PP-YOLO (1 and 2): https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddl...
Scaled-YOLOv4: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/ScaledY...
YOLOR: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolor

ℹ️ Attributions

2080Ti Footage (JayzTwoCents)
   • RTX 2080 and 2080Ti Benchmarked - Is ...  

🎵 Music

bezserca - purpose (   • bezserca - purpose  )
Vans in Japan - Deep State (   • Video  )
Punch Deck - Rise (  / rise  )

💡 Research Papers

You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection. Redmon, J. et al. 2016.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02640

YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection. Bochkovskiy, A. et al. 2020.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10934

Scaled-YOLOv4: Scaling Cross Stage Partial Network. Wang, C-Y. et al. 2021
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08036

🧐 Social stuff

Twitter:   / akamatchstic