AI engineering glossary · Computer vision

What is YOLO?

YOLO: You Only Look Once, a family of single-stage detectors that treat detection as one prediction step over a grid on the image, giving fast, real-time detection. Many versions from different authors exist, so behaviour varies by version.

Level: intermediateTopic: Computer vision

YOLO: an example

A YOLO model on a CCTV stream can label vehicles frame by frame fast enough for live monitoring.

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Where you learn it

YOLO is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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