Ultralytics YOLOv8 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!
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Documentation
See below for a quickstart installation 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 in a Python>=3.8 environment with PyTorch>=1.8.
pip install ultralytics
For alternative installation methods including Conda, Docker, and Git, please refer to the Quickstart Guide.
Usage
CLI
YOLOv8 may be used directly in the Command Line Interface (CLI) with a yolo command:
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 for examples.
Python
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
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
path = model.export(format="onnx") # export the model to ONNX format
Models download automatically from the latest Ultralytics release. See YOLOv8 Python Docs for more examples.
Models
YOLOv8 Detect, Segment and Pose models pretrained on the COCO dataset are available here, as well as YOLOv8 Classify models pretrained on the ImageNet dataset. Track mode is available for all Detect, Segment and Pose models.
All Models download automatically from the latest Ultralytics release on first use.
Detection
See Detection Docs for usage examples with these models.
| Model | size (pixels) |
mAPval 50-95 |
Speed CPU ONNX (ms) |
Speed A100 TensorRT (ms) |
params (M) |
FLOPs (B) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YOLOv8n | 640 | 37.3 | 80.4 | 0.99 | 3.2 | 8.7 |
| YOLOv8s | 640 | 44.9 | 128.4 | 1.20 | 11.2 | 28.6 |
| YOLOv8m | 640 | 50.2 | 234.7 | 1.83 | 25.9 | 78.9 |
| YOLOv8l | 640 | 52.9 | 375.2 | 2.39 | 43.7 | 165.2 |
| YOLOv8x | 640 | 53.9 | 479.1 | 3.53 | 68.2 | 257.8 |
- mAPval values are for single-model single-scale on COCO val2017 dataset.
Reproduce byyolo val detect data=coco.yaml device=0 - Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce byyolo val detect data=coco128.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu
Segmentation
See Segmentation Docs for usage examples with these models.
| Model | size (pixels) |
mAPbox 50-95 |
mAPmask 50-95 |
Speed CPU ONNX (ms) |
Speed A100 TensorRT (ms) |
params (M) |
FLOPs (B) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YOLOv8n-seg | 640 | 36.7 | 30.5 | 96.1 | 1.21 | 3.4 | 12.6 |
| YOLOv8s-seg | 640 | 44.6 | 36.8 | 155.7 | 1.47 | 11.8 | 42.6 |
| YOLOv8m-seg | 640 | 49.9 | 40.8 | 317.0 | 2.18 | 27.3 | 110.2 |
| YOLOv8l-seg | 640 | 52.3 | 42.6 | 572.4 | 2.79 | 46.0 | 220.5 |
| YOLOv8x-seg | 640 | 53.4 | 43.4 | 712.1 | 4.02 | 71.8 | 344.1 |
- mAPval values are for single-model single-scale on COCO val2017 dataset.
Reproduce byyolo val segment data=coco.yaml device=0 - Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce byyolo val segment data=coco128-seg.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu
Classification
See Classification Docs 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 | 224 | 66.6 | 87.0 | 12.9 | 0.31 | 2.7 | 4.3 |
| YOLOv8s-cls | 224 | 72.3 | 91.1 | 23.4 | 0.35 | 6.4 | 13.5 |
| YOLOv8m-cls | 224 | 76.4 | 93.2 | 85.4 | 0.62 | 17.0 | 42.7 |
| YOLOv8l-cls | 224 | 78.0 | 94.1 | 163.0 | 0.87 | 37.5 | 99.7 |
| YOLOv8x-cls | 224 | 78.4 | 94.3 | 232.0 | 1.01 | 57.4 | 154.8 |
- acc values are model accuracies on the ImageNet dataset validation set.
Reproduce byyolo val classify data=path/to/ImageNet device=0 - Speed averaged over ImageNet val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce byyolo val classify data=path/to/ImageNet batch=1 device=0|cpu
Pose
See Pose Docs for usage examples with these models.
| Model | size (pixels) |
mAPpose 50-95 |
mAPpose 50 |
Speed CPU ONNX (ms) |
Speed A100 TensorRT (ms) |
params (M) |
FLOPs (B) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YOLOv8n-pose | 640 | 50.4 | 80.1 | 131.8 | 1.18 | 3.3 | 9.2 |
| YOLOv8s-pose | 640 | 60.0 | 86.2 | 233.2 | 1.42 | 11.6 | 30.2 |
| YOLOv8m-pose | 640 | 65.0 | 88.8 | 456.3 | 2.00 | 26.4 | 81.0 |
| YOLOv8l-pose | 640 | 67.6 | 90.0 | 784.5 | 2.59 | 44.4 | 168.6 |
| YOLOv8x-pose | 640 | 69.2 | 90.2 | 1607.1 | 3.73 | 69.4 | 263.2 |
| YOLOv8x-pose-p6 | 1280 | 71.6 | 91.2 | 4088.7 | 10.04 | 99.1 | 1066.4 |
- mAPval values are for single-model single-scale on COCO Keypoints val2017
dataset.
Reproduce byyolo val pose data=coco-pose.yaml device=0 - Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce byyolo val pose data=coco8-pose.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu
Integrations
Our key integrations with leading AI platforms extend the functionality of Ultralytics' offerings, enhancing tasks like dataset labeling, training, visualization, and model management. Discover how Ultralytics, in collaboration with Roboflow, ClearML, Comet, Neural Magic and OpenVINO, can optimize your AI workflow.
| Roboflow | ClearML ⭐ NEW | Comet ⭐ NEW | Neural Magic ⭐ NEW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 visualize and debug predictions | Run YOLOv8 inference up to 6x faster with Neural Magic DeepSparse |
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License
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