YOLOv9: Everything you Need to Know

Let’s be real, following the updates in the yolo community is getting harder and harder. From the launch of Yolov1 back in 2015, there have been multiple versions that promises to be the new state of the art

• YOLOv2,YOLOv3 and YOLOv4 based on Darknet
• YOLOv5 YOLOv8 based on Ultralytics.
• SCALED-YOLOv4 which used Pytorch instead of Darknet
• YOLOR which was an improvement of YOLOv4.
• YOLOX which was a improvement of YOLOv3.
• YOLOv6 which is focused on industrial applications.
• YOLOv7 from the same authors of YOLOv4 and YOLOR.
• DAMO-YOLO
• The PaddlePaddle series (PP-YOLOv1, PP-YOLOv2, PP-YOLOE)

And now, YOLOv9 is now live and it ensures to be the new SOTA (What a surprise).

So,

Let’s explore this new YOLOv9.