Python Image Processing Cookbook

Object detection with Yolo V3

The following screenshot (figure copyright: Ros Girshick) shows the improvement in mean average precision over years for object detection on the images from the PASCAL VOC image dataset. As you can see, up to 2012, the performance for object detection started to stagnate and slow down a little bit. In 2013, the deep learning approaches came around and performance received a boost from that time onward, getting better and better over time:

Algorithms such as Region-based-CNN (for example, Faster/Mask R-CNN) and YOLO have been developed to improve the precision of object detection drastically using deep learning. ...