🤖 YOLO (You Only Look Once)

Welcome to the object-detection project using YOLO !

YOLO is a real-time object detection algorithm that detects multiple objects in a single pass through a neural network.

Here we are going to address all the findings related to this demo project. This involve also code and several small snippets but the important is to understand the process.

🔖 YOLO versions

YOLO as been around since 2016 and if i would take 2 main date references in is lifetime, it would be before YOLOv4 (Apr 2020) were its was support on Darknet a neural network framework written in C and CUDA and after YOLOv5 (Jun 2020) when it was built using PyTorch an open-source machine learning framework used to build and train deep learning models, currently supported by a company name Ultralytics.

The list of YOLO versions with their release dates.

Version	Release Date	Notes / Framework Used
YOLOv1	May 2016	Original version by Joseph Redmon (Darknet)
YOLOv2 (YOLO9000)	Dec 2016	Improved accuracy & speed (Darknet)
YOLOv3	Apr 2018	Multi-label detection, better architecture (Darknet)
YOLOv4	Apr 2020	By AlexeyAB, community-driven (Darknet)
YOLOv5	Jun 2020	By Ultralytics, rewritten in PyTorch
YOLOv6	Jun 2022	By Meituan, optimized for edge devices (PyTorch)
YOLOv7	Jul 2022	By WongKinYiu, state-of-the-art accuracy (PyTorch)
YOLOv8	Jan 2023	By Ultralytics, modular and flexible (PyTorch)
YOLOv9	Nov 2023	By Ultralytics, focuses on quantization, performance
YOLOv10	Apr 2024	By Ultralytics, added faster inference & RT-DETR support
YOLOv11	Mar 2025	Latest version, focused on transformer integration, performance & multi-task learning

💡 Real-World Applications

From factory floors to jungle trails, YOLO powers intelligent vision across industries—here’s where it shines:

• Self-driving cars 🛻
• Medical imaging 🧠
• Wildlife monitoring 🐘
• Factory automation 🏭
• Security systems 🔒
• Surveillance and security 👮‍♀️
• Quality inspection 🏭
• Retail analytics 🛍️
• Sports analytics ⚽
• Anything that you perceive as a pattern that can be detected by the human eye you will be able to detect in yolo.