- "YOLOv3 uses **Darknet-53** as its backbone. This contrasts with the use of popular ResNet family of backbones by other models such as SSD and RetinaNet. Darknet-53 is a deeper version of Darknet-19 which was used in [YOLOv2](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.08242.pdf), a prior version. As the name suggests, this backbone architecture has 53 convolutional layers. Adapting the ResNet style residual layers has improved its accuracy but still maintaining the speed advantage. This feature extractor performs better than ResNet101 and similar to ResNet152 while being about 1.5x and 2x faster, respectively [2].\n",
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