Ultralytics YOLOv8, developed by Ultralytics, is a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art (SOTA) model that builds upon the success of previous YOLO versions and introduces new features and improvements to further boost performance and flexibility. YOLOv8 is designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of object detection, image segmentation and image classification tasks.
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Documentation
See below for quickstart intallation and usage example, and see the YOLOv8 Docs for full documentation on training, validation, prediction and deployment.
Install
Pip install the ultralytics package including all requirements.txt in a Python>=3.7.0 environment, including PyTorch>=1.7.
pip install ultralytics
Usage
YOLOv8 may be used directly in the Command Line Interface (CLI) with a yolo
command:
yolo task=detect mode=predict model=yolov8n.pt source="https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg"
yolo
can be used for a variety of tasks and modes and accepts additional arguments, i.e. imgsz=640
. See a full list of available yolo
arguments in the YOLOv8 Docs.
yolo task=detect mode=train model=yolov8n.pt args...
classify predict yolov8n-cls.yaml args...
segment val yolov8n-seg.yaml args...
export yolov8n.pt format=onnx args...
YOLOv8 may also be used directly in a Python environment, and accepts the same arguments as in the CLI example above:
from ultralytics import YOLO
# Load a model
model = YOLO("yolov8n.yaml") # build a new model from scratch
model = YOLO("yolov8n.pt") # load a pretrained model (recommended for training)
# Use the model
results = model.train(data="coco128.yaml", epochs=3) # train the model
results = model.val() # evaluate model performance on the validation set
results = model("https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg") # predict on an image
success = YOLO("yolov8n.pt").export(format="onnx") # export a model to ONNX format
Models download automatically from the latest Ultralytics release.
Known Issues / TODOs
We are still working on several parts of YOLOv8! We aim to have these completed soon to bring the YOLOv8 feature set up to par with YOLOv5, including export and inference to all the same formats. We are also writing a YOLOv8 paper which we will submit to arxiv.org once complete.
- TensorFlow exports
- DDP resume
- arxiv.org paper
Checkpoints
All YOLOv8 pretrained models are available here. Detection and Segmentation models are pretrained on the COCO dataset, while Classification models are pretrained on the ImageNet dataset.
Models download automatically from the latest Ultralytics release on first use.
Detection
Model | size (pixels) |
mAPval 50-95 |
Speed CPU (ms) |
Speed T4 GPU (ms) |
params (M) |
FLOPs (B) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
YOLOv8n | 640 | 37.3 | - | - | 3.2 | 8.7 |
YOLOv8s | 640 | 44.9 | - | - | 11.2 | 28.6 |
YOLOv8m | 640 | 50.2 | - | - | 25.9 | 78.9 |
YOLOv8l | 640 | 52.9 | - | - | 43.7 | 165.2 |
YOLOv8x | 640 | 53.9 | - | - | 68.2 | 257.8 |
- mAPval values are for single-model single-scale on COCO val2017 dataset.
Reproduce byyolo mode=val task=detect data=coco.yaml device=0
- Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce byyolo mode=val task=detect data=coco128.yaml batch=1 device=0/cpu
Segmentation
Model | size (pixels) |
mAPbox 50-95 |
mAPmask 50-95 |
Speed CPU (ms) |
Speed T4 GPU (ms) |
params (M) |
FLOPs (B) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
YOLOv8n | 640 | 36.7 | 30.5 | - | - | 3.4 | 12.6 |
YOLOv8s | 640 | 44.6 | 36.8 | - | - | 11.8 | 42.6 |
YOLOv8m | 640 | 49.9 | 40.8 | - | - | 27.3 | 110.2 |
YOLOv8l | 640 | 52.3 | 42.6 | - | - | 46.0 | 220.5 |
YOLOv8x | 640 | 53.4 | 43.4 | - | - | 71.8 | 344.1 |
- mAPval values are for single-model single-scale on COCO val2017 dataset.
Reproduce byyolo mode=val task=detect data=coco.yaml device=0
- Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce byyolo mode=val task=detect data=coco128.yaml batch=1 device=0/cpu
Classification
Model | size (pixels) |
acc top1 |
acc top5 |
Speed CPU (ms) |
Speed T4 GPU (ms) |
params (M) |
FLOPs (B) at 640 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
YOLOv8n | 224 | 66.6 | 87.0 | - | - | 2.7 | 4.3 |
YOLOv8s | 224 | 72.3 | 91.1 | - | - | 6.4 | 13.5 |
YOLOv8m | 224 | 76.4 | 93.2 | - | - | 17.0 | 42.7 |
YOLOv8l | 224 | 78.0 | 94.1 | - | - | 37.5 | 99.7 |
YOLOv8x | 224 | 78.4 | 94.3 | - | - | 57.4 | 154.8 |
- mAPval values are for single-model single-scale on ImageNet dataset.
Reproduce byyolo mode=val task=detect data=coco.yaml device=0
- Speed averaged over ImageNet val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce byyolo mode=val task=detect data=coco128.yaml batch=1 device=0/cpu
Integrations
![](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/raw/main/yolov8/banner-integrations.png?raw=true)
Roboflow | ClearML โญ NEW | Comet โญ NEW | Neural Magic โญ NEW |
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Label and export your custom datasets directly to YOLOv8 for training with Roboflow | Automatically track, visualize and even remotely train YOLOv8 using ClearML (open-source!) | Free forever, Comet lets you save YOLOv8 models, resume training, and interactively visualise and debug predictions | Run YOLOv8 inference up to 6x faster with Neural Magic DeepSparse |
Ultralytics HUB
Ultralytics HUB is our โญ NEW no-code solution to visualize datasets, train YOLOv8 ๐ models, and deploy to the real world in a seamless experience. Get started for Free now! Also run YOLOv8 models on your iOS or Android device by downloading the Ultralytics App!
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Contribute
We love your input! YOLOv5 and YOLOv8 would not be possible without help from our community. Please see our Contributing Guide to get started, and fill out our Survey to send us feedback on your experience. Thank you ๐ to all our contributors!
License
YOLOv8 is available under two different licenses:
- GPL-3.0 License: See LICENSE file for details.
- Enterprise License: Provides greater flexibility for commercial product development without the open-source requirements of GPL-3.0. Typical use cases are embedding Ultralytics software and AI models in commercial products and applications. Request an Enterprise License at Ultralytics Licensing.
Contact
For YOLOv8 bugs and feature requests please visit GitHub Issues. For professional support please Contact Us.