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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 <ahref="https://docs.ultralytics.com/">Docs</a> for details, raise an issue on <ahref="https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/new/choose">GitHub</a> for support, and join our <ahref="https://ultralytics.com/discord">Discord</a> community for questions and discussions!
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.
Pip install the ultralytics package including all [requirements](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/pyproject.toml) in a [**Python>=3.8**](https://www.python.org/) environment with [**PyTorch>=1.8**](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/).
For alternative installation methods including [Conda](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/ultralytics), [Docker](https://hub.docker.com/r/ultralytics/ultralytics), and Git, please refer to the [Quickstart Guide](https://docs.ultralytics.com/quickstart).
`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.
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:
Ultralytics provides interactive notebooks for YOLOv8, covering training, validation, tracking, and more. Each notebook is paired with a [YouTube](https://youtube.com/ultralytics) tutorial, making it easy to learn and implement advanced YOLOv8 features.
| <ahref="https://docs.ultralytics.com/modes/track/">YOLOv8 Multi-Object Tracking in Videos</a> | <ahref="https://colab.research.google.com/github/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/examples/object_tracking.ipynb"><imgsrc="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg"alt="Open In Colab"></a> | <ahref="https://youtu.be/hHyHmOtmEgs"><center><imgwidth=30%src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ultralytics/assets/main/social/logo-social-youtube-rect.png"alt="Ultralytics Youtube Video"></center></a> |
| <ahref="https://docs.ultralytics.com/guides/object-counting/">YOLOv8 Object Counting in Videos</a> | <ahref="https://colab.research.google.com/github/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/examples/object_counting.ipynb"><imgsrc="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg"alt="Open In Colab"></a> | <ahref="https://youtu.be/Ag2e-5_NpS0"><center><imgwidth=30%src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ultralytics/assets/main/social/logo-social-youtube-rect.png"alt="Ultralytics Youtube Video"></center></a> |
| <ahref="https://docs.ultralytics.com/guides/heatmaps/">YOLOv8 Heatmaps in Videos</a> | <ahref="https://colab.research.google.com/github/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/examples/heatmaps.ipynb"><imgsrc="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg"alt="Open In Colab"></a> | <ahref="https://youtu.be/4ezde5-nZZw"><center><imgwidth=30%src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ultralytics/assets/main/social/logo-social-youtube-rect.png"alt="Ultralytics Youtube Video"></center></a> |
| <ahref="https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/explorer/">Ultralytics Datasets Explorer with SQL and OpenAI Integration 🚀 New</a> | <ahref="https://colab.research.google.com/github/ultralytics/ultralytics/blob/main/docs/en/datasets/explorer/explorer.ipynb"><imgsrc="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg"alt="Open In Colab"></a> | Coming Soon |
YOLOv8 [Detect](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/detect), [Segment](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/segment) and [Pose](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/pose) models pretrained on the [COCO](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/detect/coco) dataset are available here, as well as YOLOv8 [Classify](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/classify) models pretrained on the [ImageNet](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/classify/imagenet) dataset. [Track](https://docs.ultralytics.com/modes/track) mode is available for all Detect, Segment and Pose models.
All [Models](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/tree/main/ultralytics/cfg/models) download automatically from the latest Ultralytics [release](https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases) on first use.
See [Detection Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/detect/) for usage examples with these models trained on [COCO](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/detect/coco/), which include 80 pre-trained classes.
- **mAP<sup>val</sup>** values are for single-model single-scale on [COCO val2017](https://cocodataset.org) dataset. <br>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. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val detect data=coco.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`
See [Detection Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/detect/) for usage examples with these models trained on [Open Image V7](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/detect/open-images-v7/), which include 600 pre-trained classes.
- **mAP<sup>val</sup>** values are for single-model single-scale on [Open Image V7](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/detect/open-images-v7/) dataset. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val detect data=open-images-v7.yaml device=0`
- **Speed** averaged over Open Image V7 val images using an [Amazon EC2 P4d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/) instance. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val detect data=open-images-v7.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`
See [Segmentation Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/segment/) for usage examples with these models trained on [COCO-Seg](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/segment/coco/), which include 80 pre-trained classes.
- **mAP<sup>val</sup>** values are for single-model single-scale on [COCO val2017](https://cocodataset.org) dataset. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val segment data=coco-seg.yaml device=0`
- **Speed** averaged over COCO val images using an [Amazon EC2 P4d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/) instance. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val segment data=coco-seg.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`
See [Pose Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/pose/) for usage examples with these models trained on [COCO-Pose](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/pose/coco/), which include 1 pre-trained class, person.
- **mAP<sup>val</sup>** values are for single-model single-scale on [COCO Keypoints val2017](https://cocodataset.org) dataset. <br>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. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val pose data=coco-pose.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`
See [OBB Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/obb/) for usage examples with these models trained on [DOTAv1](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/obb/dota-v2/#dota-v10/), which include 15 pre-trained classes.
- **mAP<sup>test</sup>** values are for single-model multi-scale on [DOTAv1](https://captain-whu.github.io/DOTA/index.html) dataset. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val obb data=DOTAv1.yaml device=0 split=test` and submit merged results to [DOTA evaluation](https://captain-whu.github.io/DOTA/evaluation.html).
- **Speed** averaged over DOTAv1 val images using an [Amazon EC2 P4d](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/) instance. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val obb data=DOTAv1.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu`
See [Classification Docs](https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/classify/) for usage examples with these models trained on [ImageNet](https://docs.ultralytics.com/datasets/classify/imagenet/), which include 1000 pretrained classes.
- **acc** values are model accuracies on the [ImageNet](https://www.image-net.org/) dataset validation set. <br>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. <br>Reproduce by `yolo val classify data=path/to/ImageNet batch=1 device=0|cpu`
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