Deep Learning based Object Detection using YOLOv3 with OpenCV ( Python / C )

In this post, we will learn how to use YOLOv3 -- a state of the art object detector -- with OpenCV. YOLOv3 is the latest variant of a popular object detection algorithm YOLO – You Only Look Once. The published model recognizes 80 different objects in images and videos, but most importantly it is super fast and nearly as accurate as Single Shot MultiBox (SSD). We can think of an object detector as a combination of a object locator and an object recognizer. In traditional computer vision approaches, a sliding window was used to look for objects at different locations and scales.