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> it's important to note that MT-YOLOv6 is not part of the official YOLO series

I don't understand the logic behind it. Since you're not part of the official series, why create the confusion? Now the "official" YOLO will release v6 and then what? Or do you expect them to skip it because you already made v6?

To me, it seems disrespectful, just add a different suffix.

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>Now the "official" YOLO will release v6 and then what

I agree that it's disrespectful, although FYI the 'official' YOLO is done - the author, Joseph Redmon, has quit the field[1] because of the military and privacy concerns of CV.

1: https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1230524770350817280

Not only did he quit CV, he also seems to have fun outside the field: https://twitter.com/pjreddie/status/1504180525656801280

Good on him! :)

I will save this link for the next time someone asks for an IT / engineering exit path.

> because of the military and privacy concerns of CV.

If all the morally good people quit a field, and we're left with only the morally bad people, is that a good thing?

I know someone working for a big arms dealer, and they say it's really hard to find people, because nobody wants to work with them.

So, it seems to have an effect.

It's a function of how much you tend to perceive yourself as effectual. If you think the world is already a lost cause then you let it rot and try to keep away, if you think you can make a difference then you stay and try.

Tip: you don't change the system, the system changes you (or uses you and spits you out) especially when talking about military applications. Refusing to work is the only way to make a difference via your job.

I agree. The name YOLO is heavily amused (A good example: https://github.com/jinfagang/yolov7). However, you should note that the research team of YOLOv5 is also not the original one. As @garblegarble mentioned, the original research group stopped working on it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31918087).

> But note that YOLOv7 doesn't meant to be a successor of yolo family, 7 is just a magic and lucky number. Instead, YOLOv7 extend yolo into many other vision tasks, such as instance segmentation, one-stage keypoints detection etc..

Are you kidding me?

Deceptive habits like this give ML a really bad reputation and gives me so little confidence that this technology will be used responsibly as ML becomes increasingly powerful.

At this point so many different people have reused "YOLOv{n}" that the lineage is broken. I don't know how or why it happened, but it continues to be a thing.

I assume this happened because Joseph Redmon, the creator of v1 - v3, left the field of computer vision [1]. So then other people just took (stole?) the name.

[1]. https://syncedreview.com/2020/02/24/yolo-creator-says-he-sto...

At the very least v4 has a paper attached to it. The authors of v5 have claimed that they'll release a paper at some point, but it has never materialized. It doesn't seem like v6 even makes that promise.

Yup. They don't plan to release a paper but a technical report https://github.com/meituan/YOLOv6/issues/95

Have you read the article or just tried to be the 1st comment? They did mention the reason, which seems sensible to me.

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