Models

Faster R-CNN vs. YOLOv5

Both

Faster R-CNN

and

YOLOv5

are commonly used in computer vision projects. Below, we compare and contrast

Faster R-CNN

and

YOLOv5

.

  Faster R-CNN YOLOv5
Date of Release Jan 06, 2020
Model Type Object Detection Object Detection
Architecture CNN, YOLO
GitHub Stars 7800 33200

Faster R-CNN

One of the most accurate object detection algorithms but requires a lot of power at inference time. A good choice if you can do processing asynchronously on a server.

How to AugmentHow to LabelHow to Plot PredictionsHow to Filter PredictionsHow to Create a Confusion Matrix

YOLOv5

A very fast and easy to use PyTorch model that achieves state of the art (or near state of the art) results.

How to AugmentHow to LabelHow to Plot PredictionsHow to Filter PredictionsHow to Create a Confusion Matrix

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