Train Yolov8 object detection on a custom dataset | Step by step guide | Computer vision tutorial

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did u aimbot the alpaca ?

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

@@johnmcook1 😂 I did not

[@semtex6412]

@@ComputerVisionEngineer hi Felipe, will this wonderful tutorial work with the current YOLOv8 version and its dependencies? or we need the exact versions you used in this video? will there be errors? compatibility issues?

[@sreerajpainat]

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[@Conceptuallearning16]

Hi...can you please show details how to download and create dataset from openimagedatasetV7

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the fact that you have shown how to do it in both colab and locally is just amazing. you are sooo underrated. please don't stop making content. your content is sooo awesome

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Been working something similar for a hackathon in my freshman year, first thought was to build a CNN from scratch (with no prior knowledge in computer vision) , then came across this video, you are a lifesaver man.

[@hort-dog]

I’m in the exact same situation, I was making from scratch with tensor flow and keras lol

[@daviskipchirchir1357]

@@hort-dog I was in the exact same situation. I was going to build using pytorch.

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good choice but dont ever try to build a CNN from scratch because it will take years if u dont have proper knowlege because CNN has lot of mathematical logica nd functions. thats there are pre trained models available on githubs use them and modify them

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[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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The video is of high quality, simple and practical, and avoids a lot of boring and difficult computer knowledge. As a beginner, I feel that I have received new knowledge, thank you.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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[@DearAi1]

youre so fluid coherent and elaborate 1 hour felt like 1 minute

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

😊 Thank you so much for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video! 🙌

[@coreytaylor5406]

Dude you are great ! At the begining i was struggling with your accent but it ended up well. I learned new things from you, such as data annotation, implementing YOLOv8. I am grateful to you.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Hey, that is so cool, my background is on electrical engineering too! ⚡I am glad you find my content useful. Happy binge watching! 😃🙌

[@ubuntulinux81]

@@ComputerVisionEngineer me too, i have question how can i use yolov8 in linux terminal

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Hey, I explain how to train a model using yolov8 from the terminal in this video, go to minute 41:38! 🙌

[@ubuntulinux81]

@@ComputerVisionEngineer it gives me so many errors while using in ubuntu terminal how can prepare from dataset in ubuntu

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

have you installed the package in a local environment? what Python version are you using? what errors do you get?

[@srgberni]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! I have spent hours in other tutorials that ended up being a copy paste of steps in Jupiter, but you went the extra mile to show and help us understand the whole process in our own computers. This is really good work and is helping us learn a lot. Thanks heaps!

[@anushkagupta19_06]

Hey I am working on the same project and I have some problem while training the model. So can you help me out. Can you please send me your number so that I can ask my doubt as I have my hackathon tomorrow and its really urgent

[@SherryTYR]

Found out that yolov8 doesn't have the object class which i was working on. Vision Language Models weren't doing a great job in detecting the particular object which i needed. With no knowledge about computer vision, i came across this and man you're a life saver. Keep making such tutorials. Subscribed!

[@narenderrawal]

this is the most easy to follow tutorial on customized objects and I could train it myself for traffic lights. Thank you so much..bless you!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful! 😃🙌

[@ChandanaHiranmayi]

How did you download PyCharm??@@ComputerVisionEngineer

[@RIDWANLEKAN-og2yx]

You just gave me a comprehensive insight about annotation of image. Thanks

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome! 😃💪

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great work and thanks for the tutorial , you're the first youtuber I have seen answering everyone's comments . Continue the great work !

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Thank you! 😊🙌

[@digvijaysingh1285]

Thank you very much for the amazing tutorial please keep making these videos no such material is on KZbin very very helpful for each aspiring student

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

😃 Thank you! I am glad you find it useful. I will continue posting similar videos! 😄🙌

[@digvijaysingh1285]

Please make custom dataset video object detection yolov8 code complete explanation - ( the last code in this clip)

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Do you mean the inference? Sure, I can do that. 🙌

[@digvijaysingh1285]

@@ComputerVisionEngineer yes please thank you sir

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thank you my man you wouldnt believe how much gratitude i have for this video and the fact you even showed how to run it locally as well. thanks man i reallly mean it.

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[@yuribelentani]

the best explanation about how to apply Yolo V8. thank you! Your video helps me a lot

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[@デーモンサン]

Amazing Tutorial, After days of trying to figure vision models out with AI help and videos, your video was the only thing that managed to put me on the right track, I only ran into one issue but managed to figure it out pretty easily, Now I have this thing producing semi supervised datasets for further training, I Subscribed You Definitely deserve more attention. I didn't have to re watch the video, overly pause it to understand what is going on, Super easy to follow along, Overall one of - if not the best guide/tutorial videos out there! Thanks For the knowledge my guy, God bless!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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[@anlozdemir7588]

What if we have more than 1 class? Im trying this for various traffic signs. It only detects stop sign.

[@hamza001_9]

Did it not work by using multiple labels, each for a different light signal?

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I really love this channel he explains everything that you needed to know, 1 hour long video is not boring for a good teacher but 15 min. long video is too boring if the teacher is not good. keep on posting I am learning a lot from this channel

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Thank you for your support! 😃🙌 I will keep on posting! 💪

[@laurentchivot6528]

Hello and many thanks for this great tutorial , i have one question maybe not covered...when you annotate your pictures you don't tell about picture size harmonisation. Is it compulsory for better results ?

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[@UnderlyingEarth]

Thank you so much for this guide! I’m working on a school project and it’s really helping me get past the blocks I encounter.

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Hi! This was a great intro and really good explanation and it helped me get going with my 'recognize bees' project 🐝 Thanks for sharing your knowledge and you now got a new subscriber ;-)

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

😃 Awesome! Glad the video was helpful. Best of luck in your bees project! 🐝🙌

[@tommasyu5136]

As a cv grad student，i wanna say thanks for your tutorial！！！helping me a lot

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

😃 You are welcome! I am glad it is helping you, Thomas! 🙌

[@tommasyu5136]

@@ComputerVisionEngineerI appreciate it! Having a nice day ! My bro!

[@derekboase9996]

Thank you for the great video! Would love for you to dive into the fine-tuning and optimisation for this model. Do you have anything like that? For example, improving results using statistics of the ground truth images, hyper parameter tuning, etc...

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Fine tunning and optimization would be a very good topic for a future video. 🙌

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[@loulamicha]

Step by step ..i like your simplicity your explication...good job bro...i love it sooo much

[@goonadventures1]

If somebody is having problem with their config.yaml file, try naming the classes like this: names: - alpacas - lamas - whatever class you have

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[@vivekpatel009]

Hi, nice tutorial. I really enjoyed it. Is it possible for you to make a multi-label classification tutorial using DL algorithms?

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Hey, thank you, I am happy you enjoyed it! 😊 Sure, that is a great suggestion, I will try to do a video about that soon! 😃💪

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this is the video I'm looking for. Thank you. Your accent make English clearer for me, so the lesson is very clear.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Cool! Glad to hear you find the video useful! 😃🙌

[@tashneetkaur30]

Hey, I am facing an issue where evrything's running fine, even my results are also getting saved but still there is ( no detection ) written.! How to resolve this I have tried 2/3 times

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Hey, not sure if I understand, what do you mean there is no detection?

[@pixelveil7980]

i also am getting this

[@comradeblin256]

Have issue where when scanning the images its "2 images, 0 background, 100% corrupt" The code runs but the result is no detection.the curves were flat especialy in prediction and recall. Any help?

[@VasaviInti]

I am also having same issue! Can anyone help?

[@Auaua-n4d]

Me to I have 200 images with bounding boxes 22 inside background and it doesnt matter if Its 10 100 or 300 epochs No matrix and flat curves

[@onair392]

Great video, very detailed. Really stands out from a lot of very confusing and crappy tutorials. Also your accent is so interesting.

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This is so underrated! Great video

[@digitalchowder]

Thank you so much for your help in this video. The way you broke down each step of the process helped way beyond everything else I have found. Too many demonstration videos assume too much. You didn't. Thanks, again.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome! Glad you find it helpful! 😃🙌

[@sinderliu8019]

Thx for the video , I trained my first model you re such a nice youtuber

[@davidpoling7748]

Thanks! This is by far the best guide I've found for this process

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Spectacular tutorial, sir. Thank you.

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the best video i have found on how to train yolo v8 thanks a lot

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[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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This is THE HOLY GUIDE. Thanks!

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Thanks for the video! Keep at it brother!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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THANK YOU FOR THIS EXCELLENT TUTORIAL

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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[@castle_of_jokes]

TYSMMM this absolutely helped me create my first object detection model TYSMMMMMMM

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome! 😃 Glad you find it useful! 🙌

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@@ComputerVisionEngineer yep defiantly the best course abt the topic on youtube

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@@ComputerVisionEngineer are you considering doing a yolo nas course??

[@code___f1]

This is fantastic! Excited to give this a shot-appreciate it, mate!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

😃 You are welcome!

[@code___f1]

@@ComputerVisionEngineer do you have any good resources or suggestions for taking this trained model and then doing object counting in an ROI?

[@Nj-hw2cv]

Oh man you nailed the tutorial 💯

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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[@shijiqiao3448]

Abosolutely helpful! So understandable and thank you so much!!!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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[@zeerakkhan274]

Great indepth explanation of the entire process. 👍👍

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Glad it was helpful!! 😃💪

[@anushka.narsima]

Thank you so much for covering different ways to do the job!!!! I've been struggling over the past 2 weeks bcuz every tutorial showed a single method and I kept running into some kind of error each time and had to redo the whole process so many times and downloaded a bunch of useless stuff >.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Yeah I hear you, I've been there! I am happy you found the video helpful! 🤠🙌

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u saved my project n my life🤓 theenks

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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You are many many many (cit.) the best! 😂😂! Thank you!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

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Perfect explanation, Thank you!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! 😃🙌

[@hiumuku8007]

i dont comment much but this was very good

[@Hexzit]

Thanks a lot!! big thanks for teaching how to do it on a local ide

[@MohammadhasanAmini-b2h]

I have an error at 50:00 it gives me the NotImplementedError when i run this : !scp -r /content/runs '/content/gdrive/MyDrive/training_yolov8_on_custom_dataset' and i don't know how can i fix it I would appreciate it if you answer me

[@amangrewal9467]

Awesome video!!

[@redmil3773]

hello, when i run 'create_dataset_yolo_format.py' I get an error saying "The system cannot find the path specified: '.\\data\\train'". Could u pls help me with this? Thanks

[@MsRAJDIP]

Thank you, you explained so well and detailed.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! 😃💪

[@whatacomedy177]

Great Job... Keep Posting...

[@redmil3773]

Hello, sorry if this is a weird question but when i execute downloader.py it comes up with an error saying image list argument is required. Have i missed a step, was i supposed to download images manually?

[@Mohk610]

same issue here

[@adibguardiola3208]

Buenas tardes, El video está muy bien explicado!!! ,sólo algunas dudas de la configuración de las carpetas y cuál es la mínima cantidad de fotos para tener un buen rendimiento.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

La cantidad minima de fotos depende, pero en general con algunas miles es suficiente. 🙌

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Great work!!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Thank you! 😃

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Great work!

[@chandrakalagowda3129]

Thank you! for the detailed video.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome! 😃🙌

[@Simas1]

Sos un genio hermano, ya sabia que si no eras Argentino eras Uruguayo jajajajajaja. Has pensado en subir los videos en español también? Sé que somos pocos loquitos en el tema, pero preguntaba por comodidad nomás. Un saludo!!!!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Hola! He pensado hacer un canal en español, tal vez lo haga más adelante. Gracias por tu apoyo! 🙌

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Great job !

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Thank you very much for your efforts and how to clear stored data after a period of time so as not to fill up the storage memory.

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nice man, i found a incredible content thank u so much!!

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome! Thank you for your support! 😃🙌

[@leonidas1983]

buen tutorial! Dejo feedback: el epoch = 1 entrena muy poco debe subirse a 100, sino la red no se entrena y por ende no predice

[@hotdog-py3oi]

Do you know why my GPU isnt used while training the model and my CPU ist used around 80% (I looked it up in the task manager) I thought the GPU should be used the most

[@isaac10231]

I'm so hyped!

[@pyaephyo3633]

Thank you very much for sharing and explanation, Sir.

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome! 😊🙌

[@scukboy4214]

Thank you so much to bring the latest technology

[@josemariadepereda6237]

best tutorial i found about training with volov8. congrats. On the final stage, you do some prediction tests with videos. Could you guide usto do that test but with images uploaded by the user? Example: user upload an image (photo), and after its uploaded the system detects objects on it. Thanks in advance! you have my suscription and thumbs up allways!

[@josemariadepereda6237]

never mind. found tutorial on oficial ultralitycs docs

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

Thank you for your support! Inference is covered in other videos, for example this one is about object detection on frames of a video kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHq1g6h9g5Wda6c 🙌

[@RomanHowladar-dr9pc]

Many Mant Thanks for the video man

[@carlitosvh91]

Great video. Thank you very much

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You are just AMAZINGGG !!! sir . Thank you so much :)

[@ComputerVisionEngineer]

You are welcome!! Thank you for your kind words. 😊🙌

[@AminaOULDZMIRLI]

Hello, i followed the exact same steps but i keep getting this problem : "WARNING ⚠ No labels found in /content/gdrive/MyDrive/data1/images1/val1.cache, training may not work correctly." is there a problem with my data ?

[@midhunbose8228]

Gud job brother❤

[@TheTechCricketer]

Super helpful, thanks!

[@anushkagupta19_06]

Hey I am working on the same project and I have some problem while training the model. So can you help me out. Can you please send me your number so that I can ask my doubt as I have my hackathon tomorrow and its really urgent

[@zhe8450]

Hello, please help me At 1:00:30, model _path=os.path.join('.', 'models', 'alpaca_detector.pt') can you explain what this means? I am trying to follow your tutorial and use webcam for real time object detection instead of using video but I don't understand this line. Where did 'alpaca_detector.pt' come from? I'm sure I didn't miss anything in the video but I don't know where 'alpaca_detector.pt' came from. I hope you can help me, thanks

[@zhe8450]

when training the model this is the code I used data=r'C:\Users\USER\Documents\imageprocessing2\yolodata' data from ultralytics import YOLO config_path = r'C:\Users\USER\Desktop\config.yaml' # Load a model model = YOLO("yolov8n.yaml") # build a new model from scratch # Use the model model.train(data=os.path.join(data,config_path), epochs=1) # train the model

[@zhe8450]

doing it in jupyter notrbook

[@AdautoTDFNeto]

Amazing tutorial and explication, +1 subscriber

[@shivamchoudhury9791]

I used another random dataset with 1000 images in train and 100 images in validation, and I tried to keep val and train datasets different in the config.yaml. The results generated on every graph in (results.png) consist of a single dot. Should I choose the train dataset and validation dataset for correct results? Can you please help me? Regards🌼🌻🌼 *Edit: I got my issue resolved; I just used 20 epochs instead of one Thanks for such a great and only video on yolov8 that is crystal clear about every point.

[@allea-zb7kl]

hi, I have a question. if I divide the dataset into training and testing only, is it necessary to run the validation part? and if not, during inference how to find out the mAP? plis help me🙏

[@lumostoyourday1976]

Hello, do you need to put images of things that aren't the object (for ex. pictures of things other than alpacas) so the model knows how to differentiate between the target object and confounders?

[@lt6492]

where did you get the .pt file? I find it very strange that no developers are including that info..

[@_Dalember_]

Resumen del video [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:37:03][^2^][2]: Este video proporciona una guía detallada sobre cómo entrenar un detector de objetos Yolov8 en un conjunto de datos personalizado. El proceso incluye la recolección y anotación de datos, estructuración de datos en el formato requerido por Yolov8, y finalmente, el entrenamiento del modelo. **Destacados**: + [00:00:00][^3^][3] **Introducción al entrenamiento de Yolov8** * Presentación del proceso completo de entrenamiento * Importancia de la recolección de datos adecuados + [00:05:06][^4^][4] **Anotación de datos** * Uso de la herramienta de anotación CVAT * Proceso de etiquetado de imágenes con cajas delimitadoras + [00:19:54][^5^][5] **Estructuración de datos para Yolov8** * Formato específico requerido para el entrenamiento * Creación de directorios de imágenes y etiquetas + [00:30:03][^6^][6] **Entrenamiento del modelo Yolov8** * Uso del repositorio oficial de Yolov8 * Métodos para entrenar el modelo en un entorno local o en Google Colab + [00:37:12][^3^][3] **Configuración inicial** * Establecimiento del directorio raíz y especificación de datos de entrenamiento y validación * Uso de los mismos datos para simplificar el tutorial + [00:38:10][^4^][4] **Entrenamiento en Python** * Ejecución del entrenamiento con Yolov8 para un solo epoch como demostración * Observación del proceso de carga de datos y entrenamiento + [00:43:03][^5^][5] **Entrenamiento en Google Colab** * Creación de un cuaderno en Google Colab y montaje de Google Drive * Instalación de la biblioteca ultralytics y configuración del entrenamiento + [00:50:06][^6^][6] **Evaluación del modelo** * Revisión de los resultados del entrenamiento y análisis de la pérdida * Pruebas prácticas con videos de alpacas para evaluar la precisión del modelo

[@CaliEi]

Great 🩵🙌🏻

[@amarnathreddysurapureddy9111]

Hi Felipe, Ultralytics using any standardscale for detecting object. Original images to standard format