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YOLOv3

Third YOLO with a DarkNet-53 backbone, from the paper "YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement".

University of Washington
Levelvariant
Classvision
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released8 Apr 2018
Opennessunknown
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

successor
YOLOv1 to YOLOv2 (YOLO9000): successor, high confidenceYOLOv2 (YOLO9000) to YOLOv3: successor, high confidenceYOLOv1YOLOv1University of Washington, Jun 2015YOLOv2 (YOLO9000)YOLOv2 (YOLO9000)University of Washington, Dec 2016YOLOv3YOLOv3University of Washington, Apr 2018
University of WashingtonYOLOv2 (YOLO9000) is the parent (successor)high confidencenotes
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 3 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
University of Washington
Family
YOLO (original line, v1 to v3)
Released
8 Apr 2018 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
CNN
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
image
Output
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
unknown
Licence
not in the notes sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/1804.02767 https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02767
  2. github.com/onnx/models/tree/main/validated/vision/object... https://github.com/onnx/models/tree/main/validated/vision/object_detection_segmentation/yolov3
  3. arxiv.org/html/1804.02767 https://arxiv.org/html/1804.02767

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "YOLOv3", https://aurion.semai.id/models/yolo-v3/, records of October 2026.