leggedrobotics/darknet_ros

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2439 stars · 1201 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A ROS package wrapping the YOLO (Darknet) real-time object detector for use in robotic systems. It subscribes to camera image topics and publishes bounding-box detections for VOC/COCO classes or custom-trained models on GPU or CPU.

Use cases

• run YOLO object detection on a ROS camera stream
• detect people in images for a robot
• integrate real-time object detection into a ROS node
• detect COCO classes from a robot's camera
• use a custom-trained YOLO model in ROS

When to choose

• you need real-time object detection inside a ROS/ROS2 pipeline
• you want GPU-accelerated YOLO with ROS topic integration
• you need person or COCO-class detection on a robot

When to avoid

• you are not using ROS
• you need the latest YOLO versions (v4+ or YOLOv8-style architectures)
• you need a maintained production system - it is research code with infrequent updates

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

computer-vision image-processing machine-learning deep-learning robotics computer-vision machine-learning cpp yolo darknet object-detection ros-package real-time linux ros gpu

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