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[Ultralytics](https://ultralytics.com) [YOLOv8](https://github.com/ultralytics/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 and tracking, instance segmentation, image classification and pose estimation tasks. We hope that the resources here will help you get the most out of YOLOv8. Please browse the YOLOv8 Docs for details, raise an issue on GitHub for support, and join our Discord community for questions and discussions! To request an Enterprise License please complete the form at [Ultralytics Licensing](https://ultralytics.com/license).

Documentation

See below for a quickstart installation and usage example, and see the [YOLOv8 Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com) for full documentation on training, validation, prediction and deployment.

Install

Pip install the ultralytics package including all [requirements](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/requirements.txt) in a [**Python>=3.7**](https://www.python.org/) environment with [**PyTorch>=1.7**](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/). ```bash pip install ultralytics ```

Usage

#### CLI YOLOv8 may be used directly in the Command Line Interface (CLI) with a `yolo` command: ```bash yolo 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 the YOLOv8 [CLI Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/usage/cli) for examples. #### Python YOLOv8 may also be used directly in a Python environment, and accepts the same [arguments](https://docs.ultralytics.com/usage/cfg/) as in the CLI example above: ```python 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 model.train(data="coco128.yaml", epochs=3) # train the model metrics = model.val() # evaluate model performance on the validation set results = model("https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg") # predict on an image success = model.export(format="onnx") # export the model to ONNX format ``` [Models](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/tree/main/ultralytics/models) download automatically from the latest Ultralytics [release](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases). See YOLOv8 [Python Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/usage/python) for more examples.

Models

All YOLOv8 pretrained models are available here. Detect, Segment and Pose models are pretrained on the [COCO](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/ultralytics/datasets/coco.yaml) dataset, while Classify models are pretrained on the [ImageNet](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/ultralytics/datasets/ImageNet.yaml) dataset. [Models](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/tree/main/ultralytics/models) download automatically from the latest Ultralytics [release](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases) on first use.

Detection

See [Detection Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/detect/) for usage examples with these models. | Model | size
^{(pixels) | mAP^{val
50-95 | Speed
^{CPU ONNX
(ms) | Speed
^{A100 TensorRT
(ms) | params
^{(M) | FLOPs
^{(B) |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- |
| [YOLOv8n](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8n.pt) | 640 | 37.3 | 80.4 | 0.99 | 3.2 | 8.7 |
| [YOLOv8s](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8s.pt) | 640 | 44.9 | 128.4 | 1.20 | 11.2 | 28.6 |
| [YOLOv8m](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8m.pt) | 640 | 50.2 | 234.7 | 1.83 | 25.9 | 78.9 |
| [YOLOv8l](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8l.pt) | 640 | 52.9 | 375.2 | 2.39 | 43.7 | 165.2 |
| [YOLOv8x](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8x.pt) | 640 | 53.9 | 479.1 | 3.53 | 68.2 | 257.8 |

- **mAP^val** values are for single-model single-scale on [COCO val2017](http://cocodataset.org) dataset.

Reproduce by `yolo val detect data=coco.yaml device=0`
- **Speed** averaged over COCO val images using an [Amazon EC2 P4d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/) instance.

Reproduce by `yolo val detect data=coco128.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`}}}}}}

Segmentation

See [Segmentation Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/segment/) for usage examples with these models. | Model | size
^{(pixels) | mAP^{box
50-95 | mAP^{mask
50-95 | Speed
^{CPU ONNX
(ms) | Speed
^{A100 TensorRT
(ms) | params
^{(M) | FLOPs
^{(B) |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | -------------------- | --------------------- | ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- |
| [YOLOv8n-seg](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8n-seg.pt) | 640 | 36.7 | 30.5 | 96.1 | 1.21 | 3.4 | 12.6 |
| [YOLOv8s-seg](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8s-seg.pt) | 640 | 44.6 | 36.8 | 155.7 | 1.47 | 11.8 | 42.6 |
| [YOLOv8m-seg](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8m-seg.pt) | 640 | 49.9 | 40.8 | 317.0 | 2.18 | 27.3 | 110.2 |
| [YOLOv8l-seg](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8l-seg.pt) | 640 | 52.3 | 42.6 | 572.4 | 2.79 | 46.0 | 220.5 |
| [YOLOv8x-seg](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8x-seg.pt) | 640 | 53.4 | 43.4 | 712.1 | 4.02 | 71.8 | 344.1 |

- **mAP^val** values are for single-model single-scale on [COCO val2017](http://cocodataset.org) dataset.

Reproduce by `yolo val segment data=coco.yaml device=0`
- **Speed** averaged over COCO val images using an [Amazon EC2 P4d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/) instance.

Reproduce by `yolo val segment data=coco128-seg.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`}}}}}}}

Classification

See [Classification Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/classify/) for usage examples with these models. | Model | size
^{(pixels) | acc
^{top1 | acc
^{top5 | Speed
^{CPU ONNX
(ms) | Speed
^{A100 TensorRT
(ms) | params
^{(M) | FLOPs
^{(B) at 640 |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------ |
| [YOLOv8n-cls](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8n-cls.pt) | 224 | 66.6 | 87.0 | 12.9 | 0.31 | 2.7 | 4.3 |
| [YOLOv8s-cls](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8s-cls.pt) | 224 | 72.3 | 91.1 | 23.4 | 0.35 | 6.4 | 13.5 |
| [YOLOv8m-cls](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8m-cls.pt) | 224 | 76.4 | 93.2 | 85.4 | 0.62 | 17.0 | 42.7 |
| [YOLOv8l-cls](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8l-cls.pt) | 224 | 78.0 | 94.1 | 163.0 | 0.87 | 37.5 | 99.7 |
| [YOLOv8x-cls](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8x-cls.pt) | 224 | 78.4 | 94.3 | 232.0 | 1.01 | 57.4 | 154.8 |

- **acc** values are model accuracies on the [ImageNet](https://www.image-net.org/) dataset validation set.

Reproduce by `yolo val classify data=path/to/ImageNet device=0`
- **Speed** averaged over ImageNet val images using an [Amazon EC2 P4d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/) instance.

Reproduce by `yolo val classify data=path/to/ImageNet batch=1 device=0|cpu`}}}}}}}

Pose

See [Pose Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/pose) for usage examples with these models. | Model | size
^{(pixels) | mAP^{pose
50-95 | mAP^{pose
50 | Speed
^{CPU ONNX
(ms) | Speed
^{A100 TensorRT
(ms) | params
^{(M) | FLOPs
^{(B) |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | --------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- |
| [YOLOv8n-pose](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8n-pose.pt) | 640 | 50.4 | 80.1 | 131.8 | 1.18 | 3.3 | 9.2 |
| [YOLOv8s-pose](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8s-pose.pt) | 640 | 60.0 | 86.2 | 233.2 | 1.42 | 11.6 | 30.2 |
| [YOLOv8m-pose](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8m-pose.pt) | 640 | 65.0 | 88.8 | 456.3 | 2.00 | 26.4 | 81.0 |
| [YOLOv8l-pose](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8l-pose.pt) | 640 | 67.6 | 90.0 | 784.5 | 2.59 | 44.4 | 168.6 |
| [YOLOv8x-pose](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8x-pose.pt) | 640 | 69.2 | 90.2 | 1607.1 | 3.73 | 69.4 | 263.2 |
| [YOLOv8x-pose-p6](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8x-pose-p6.pt) | 1280 | 71.6 | 91.2 | 4088.7 | 10.04 | 99.1 | 1066.4 |

- **mAP^val** values are for single-model single-scale on [COCO Keypoints val2017](http://cocodataset.org)
dataset.

Reproduce by `yolo val pose data=coco-pose.yaml device=0`
- **Speed** averaged over COCO val images using an [Amazon EC2 P4d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/) instance.

Reproduce by `yolo val pose data=coco8-pose.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`}}}}}}}

Integrations

| Roboflow | ClearML ⭐ NEW | Comet ⭐ NEW | Neural Magic ⭐ NEW | | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | | Label and export your custom datasets directly to YOLOv8 for training with [Roboflow](https://roboflow.com/?ref=ultralytics) | Automatically track, visualize and even remotely train YOLOv8 using [ClearML](https://cutt.ly/yolov5-readme-clearml) (open-source!) | Free forever, [Comet](https://bit.ly/yolov8-readme-comet) lets you save YOLOv8 models, resume training, and interactively visualize and debug predictions | Run YOLOv8 inference up to 6x faster with [Neural Magic DeepSparse](https://bit.ly/yolov5-neuralmagic) | ##

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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](https://docs.ultralytics.com/help/contributing) to get started, and fill out our [Survey](https://ultralytics.com/survey?utm_source=github&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Survey) to send us feedback on your experience. Thank you 🙏 to all our contributors!

License

YOLOv8 is available under two different licenses: - **AGPL-3.0 License**: See [LICENSE](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/LICENSE) file for details. - **Enterprise License**: Provides greater flexibility for commercial product development without the open-source requirements of AGPL-3.0. Typical use cases are embedding Ultralytics software and AI models in commercial products and applications. Request an Enterprise License at [Ultralytics Licensing](https://ultralytics.com/license). ##

Contact

For YOLOv8 bug reports and feature requests please visit [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues), and join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/n6cFeSPZdD) community for questions and discussions!