YOLOv3 from Scratch

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How to implement YOLOv3 from scratch using Pytorch.

If you prefer to read instead of watch there is also a written article:

In this video we'll:
✔️ Recap of YOLO
✔️ YOLOv1 vs YOLOv3 differences
✔️ Implementing the architecture
✔️ Dataset loading of MSCOCO and Pascal VOC
✔️ Loss function
✔️ Setting up training

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⌚️ Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - Recap of YOLO
6:10 - YOLOv3 vs YOLOv1
14:25 - Model implementation
47:20 - Dataset class
1:14:30 - Loss implementation
1:29:07 - Config file
1:34:24 - Training
1:51:05 - Ending

[AladdinPersson]

These from scratch videos & paper implementations take a lot of time for me to do, if you want to see me make more of these types of videos: please crush that like button and subscribe and I'll do it :) Btw was awesome chatting with you all during the premiere!

Github repository (including link to dataset & pretrained weights):

There is an amazing written article if you prefer to read instead of watching that I recommend:

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Original paper:

⌚️ Timestampo:
0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - Recap of YOLO
6:10 - YOLOv3 vs YOLOv1
14:25 - Model implementation
47:20 - Dataset class
1:14:30 - Loss implementation
1:29:07 - Config file
1:34:24 - Training
1:51:05 - Ending

[mrigankanath]

I have been also trying to implement research papers/ popular algorithms but fail in doing it.
Can I suggest you make a video on how you approach a research paper, what are your first steps in implementing your code and some tips or tricks.
It would be really good.

[wolfisraging]

This is the bomb yo, really appreciate it.


I'm too trying to make another video.... just too busy in my undergrad examinations and labs stuff.... hope to upload it really soon.

[yutongyang]

This series of object detection is just AMAZING! Really like it!

[kirtipandya]

Aladdin, dude you are doing awesome projects. Don’t work for anyone. Start your own company.

[Information_Stats]

Thank you very much, I was struggling with transfer learning for months and i got so frustrated that i decided to make a model myself, i hope after this tutorial i would be able to do it .

[pdrcouto]

A lot of hard work and knowledge in this video. It was amazing to watch, thank you.

[glowingenigma]

Man, you motivate me with such a good videos, thanks you

[prabhavkaula]

Thank you for documenting and sharing your application and understanding of the resources like the YOLO algorithm

[bajrangchapola]

I watched all of your videos. You are doing fabulous work.

[emilhovad]

Great video, it is nice to have these videos with great details regarding implementation in pytorch. It really helps me to learn pytorch🙂.

Some minor details:
1) The objectness is typically positioned at the fourth position, based on the original yolov3 paper.
# start of loss function
obj = target[..., 4] == 1 # in paper this is Iobj_i
noobj = target[..., 4] == 0 # in paper this is Inoobj_i
2) The target should also have all the class predictions (20 in voc or 80 in coco)
#in the training loop, when preparing the target. The target should also have a 1 in the correction position in the class predictions
import torch.nn.functional as fun
targets[scale_idx][anchor_on_scale, i, j, 5:] = fun.one_hot(torch.tensor(int(class_label)), num_classes)

I hope to make a pull request, altough yolov3 is great, the paper is hard to read;-)

[konataizumi]

Amazing job, dude. One of the best channels.

[klrshak]

Thanks a lot, the video Helped me a lot to understand each and every part of YOLO algorithm.

[ahxmeds]

Amazing tutorial. thanks for making this. I just had a basic question before I start implementing this. For my specific problem statement, I want to use negative images (images with no object). Should I just use empty .txt files for the bounding box coordinates for these images in the training set?

[pritamjathar]

Can't wait for the solution, as I got stuck while implementing the paper myself. Really really excited

[arrayt]

Dude you are just awesome ❤️... This video guide has helped me a lot in understanding yolo model 😌 thanks man 🤞

[adityabodkhe]

Really appreciate the effort bro. Keep up the good work . I will also consider donating to your channel

[zeyutang]

Very clear explanation! It would be also great if you could make a video on Detectron in the future!

[qiguosun]

This is really an awesome video, I decided to follow you to learn more.

[dajuric]

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