[p_l]

Depends on specific cases, I have on good authority of how in few "bleeding edge" ones they essentially repacked/wrapped YOLOv3. Purpose was specifically tracking in adversarial conditions (smoke, including smokescreen, obstacles, etc)

[Onavo]

For realtime on the edge the YOLO series is pretty good, I don't think anyone would disagree. Most of the really advanced stuff like Vision Language models all require a lot more compute and power budget.

[p_l]

A bunch of what they were contracted for very much required realtime tracking at the edge

[nextaccountic]

Why YOLOv3 and not something more recent? Like YOLO26 or something

[p_l]

I only have the reflection from "client side" saying that all the military contractors rolled in with essentially YOLOv3 wrapped in custom software

[nextaccountic]

Why YOLOv3 and not something more recent?