Reviewing YOLO: You Only Look Once

Object detection is one of the most popular tasks in computer vision, since it can be applied to a wide range of applications: robotics, autonomous driving or fault detection. In this post, we will try to give a brief overview of the YOLO algorithm and the components that make it work. To do that, I have classified the main components of the algorithm into three categories: Characteristics based on the model architecture, how YOLO-based models improved the performance by using a new architecture and which are the improvements made. Strategies based on the model training, such as the function loss or data augmentation. Methods for post-processing the output of the model, such as the non-maximum suppression (NMS) and the confidence threshold. The origin of YOLO ...

Date: April 25, 2026 · Estimated Reading Time: 12 min · Author: Oriol Alàs Cercós