Real-Time Object Detection and Tracking with Kotlin and YOLO on Android

Real-time computer vision is one of the most useful applications of machine learning on mobile devices. Android phones provide cameras, GPU acceleration, and enough processing power to run optimized detection models locally.

In this tutorial, we will build the architecture for a Kotlin application that captures camera frames, runs a YOLO-style object detector, and tracks detected objects across frames.

Architecture

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