YOLOv4 - Superior, Faster & More Accurate Object Detection
YOLOv4 results on MS COCO Object detection [1] Introduction So guess what, YOLOv4 has just been released a few days ago, and I must say I am really really excited by this release. Why? Well Yolo version 3 was quite popular, robust and quick, and now YOLOv4 in comparison I feel is a significant upgrade in terms of speed and performance. So, this article I am going to dissect the paper YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection by Alexey Bochkovsky, Chien Yao and Hon-Yuan [1]. Wait – hold, what happened to the original creators of Yolo v1-3 Joseph Redmon and Ali Farhadi – Well Joseph or Joe tweeted in Feb 2020 that he will stop Computer vision research because of how the technology was being used for military applications and that the privacy concerns were have a societal impact. Ali Farhadi went on to found a company called xnor.ai which specialized in on edge-centric AI. According to Forbes [2], They have since been acquired by Apple, surprise surprise :P. Okay so back ...