IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 15, No 4: August 2026

Real-time object detection for autonomous driving: a comparative study of YOLO and Faster R-CNN

Madhura M. Bhosale (JSPM'
s Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering)

Yogesh S. Angal (JSPM'
s Bhivarabai Sawant Institute of Technology and Research)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2026

Abstract

Over the past few years, object detection has experienced remarkable progress and development, primarily driven by the development of one-stage and two-stage detection algorithms. Among these, Faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) and you only look once (YOLO) have achieved notable success due to their strong performance and computational efficiency. Object detection plays a crucial role in various applications, particularly in autonomous driving systems, where accurate detection of pedestrians, vehicles, and road signs is essential for ensuring safety and reliability. This paper conducts a comparative evaluation of YOLO and Faster R-CNN to analyze their performance in autonomous driving environments. The experiments were conducted using the KITTI open-source dataset, which is widely used for benchmarking object detection models. All experiments were performed on an NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU to ensure efficient computation, with implementations developed using Python version 3.9.13. The experimental findings indicate that YOLO surpasses Faster R-CNN in performance, attaining an accuracy rate of 90%. These findings highlight the effectiveness of YOLO for real-time object detection tasks, making it a suitable and preferred choice for time-sensitive applications such as autonomous driving systems.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...