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• paper - YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02696

• source code - Pytorch (use to reproduce results): https://github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7

Official YOLOv7 is more accurate and faster than YOLOv5 by 120% FPS, than YOLOX by 180% FPS, than Dual-Swin-T by 1200% FPS, than ConvNext by 550% FPS, than SWIN-L by 500% FPS.

YOLOv7 surpasses all known object detectors in both speed and accuracy in the range from 5 FPS to 160 FPS and has the highest accuracy 56.8% AP among all known real-time object detectors with 30 FPS or higher on GPU V100, batch=1.

• YOLOv7-e6 (55.9% AP, 56 FPS V100 b=1) by +500% FPS faster than SWIN-L Cascade-Mask R-CNN (53.9% AP, 9.2 FPS A100 b=1)
• YOLOv7-e6 (55.9% AP, 56 FPS V100 b=1) by +550% FPS faster than ConvNeXt-XL C-M-RCNN (55.2% AP, 8.6 FPS A100 b=1)
• YOLOv7-w6 (54.6% AP, 84 FPS V100 b=1) by +120% FPS faster than YOLOv5-X6-r6.1 (55.0% AP, 38 FPS V100 b=1)
• YOLOv7-w6 (54.6% AP, 84 FPS V100 b=1) by +1200% FPS faster than Dual-Swin-T C-M-RCNN (53.6% AP, 6.5 FPS V100 b=1)
• YOLOv7x (52.9% AP, 114 FPS V100 b=1) by +150% FPS faster than PPYOLOE-X (51.9% AP, 45 FPS V100 b=1)
• YOLOv7 (51.2% AP, 161 FPS V100 b=1) by +180% FPS faster than YOLOX-X (51.1% AP, 58 FPS V100 b=1)

• paper (CVPR 2021): https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/html/Wang_Scaled-YOLOv4_Scaling_Cross_Stage_Partial_Network_CVPR_2021_paper.html

• source code - Pytorch (use to reproduce results): https://github.com/WongKinYiu/ScaledYOLOv4

• source code - Darknet: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

• Medium: https://alexeyab84.medium.com/scaled-yolo-v4-is-the-best-neural-network-for-object-detection-on-ms-coco-dataset-39dfa22fa982?source=friends_link&sk=c8553bfed861b1a7932f739d26f487c8

• paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10934

• source code: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

• Wiki: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/wiki

• useful links: https://medium.com/@alexeyab84/yolov4-the-most-accurate-real-time-neural-network-on-ms-coco-dataset-73adfd3602fe?source=friends_link&sk=6039748846bbcf1d960c3061542591d7

For more information see the Darknet project website.

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2207.02696,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2207.02696},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02696},
  author = {Wang, Chien-Yao and Bochkovskiy, Alexey and Liao, Hong-Yuan Mark},
  keywords = {Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title = {YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2022}, 
  copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
}

@misc{bochkovskiy2020yolov4,
      title={YOLOv4: Optimal Speed and Accuracy of Object Detection}, 
      author={Alexey Bochkovskiy and Chien-Yao Wang and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2004.10934},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

@InProceedings{Wang_2021_CVPR,
    author    = {Wang, Chien-Yao and Bochkovskiy, Alexey and Liao, Hong-Yuan Mark},
    title     = {{Scaled-YOLOv4}: Scaling Cross Stage Partial Network},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2021},
    pages     = {13029-13038}
}