How to Use YOLOv3 With Darknet in 4 Easy Steps

What is Darknet?

Darknet is an open-source neural network framework that features YOLO.

YoloV3 has been available for many years now and it is still widely used.

What is YOLO?

YOLO stands for You Only Look Once and is a real-time object detection system.

How to use YOLO for inference

There are several ways of using YOLO, the original way, is through Darknet itself.

To use darknet we will need to do it through the terminal, and it is pretty easy to do it.

Below are the steps we will need to follow.

Step 1: Clone Darknet from Github

git clone https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet

Step 2: Compile Darknet

We need to make use of ‘make’ to compile darknet, this will work out of the box in MacOs and Linux, I’m doing this on macOS.

In Windows, you might need to do further research to see how you can use ‘make’ to compile it

cd darknet
make