Darknet is an open-source neural network framework that is used for object detection and image classification. The tool works with YOLO, a high-performance real-time object detection system, and popular datasets like ResNet and ResNeXt. 

YOLO (v4) is the latest version and the object detection product is faster than Google’s EfficientDet D7x, Amazon Cascade-RCNN ResNest 200, Microsoft RepPoints v2, and Facebook RentinaNet SpineNet-190.  

Project Background

• Framework: Darknet
• Author: Joseph Redmon
• Started: 2014
• Type: RNN 
• License: Open to the public domain
• Language: C and Cuda
• GitHub: pjreddie/darknet has 21k stars and seven contributorsworks