<![CDATA[Vehicle detection plays a crucial role in various applications such as traffic surveillance, license plate recognition, and the development of autonomous vehicles. The You Only Look Once (YOLO) object detection method is renowned for its high-speed real-time object detection capabilities. In this study, YOLO is employed to detect vehicles in images and videos. YOLO treats object detection as a direct regression problem for bounding boxes and class predictions. The aim of this research is to develop a vehicle counting system using the YOLO method. The Midpoint algorithm is utilized to calculate the midpoint between two points in a coordinate plane. Another objective is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the method and algorithm in the context of vehicle detection while identifying related research trends. The test results indicate that the system is capable of detecting vehicles with an average accuracy of 92.42% across four different time periods. In the morning, the system detected 156 vehicles (manual count: 147, accuracy: 94.23%); at midday, it detected 246 vehicles (manual count: 225, accuracy: 91.46%); in the evening, 377 vehicles were detected (manual count: 351, accuracy: 93.10%); and at night, the system identified 526 vehicles (manual count: 225, accuracy: 92.58%). This study contributes to the development of a more effective vehicle counting system for smart city applications while also paving the way for further research on vehicle detection under varying lighting and environmental conditions.]]>
