Announcing Ultralytics v8.2.60 Release!
Hello Ultralytics Community!
We are thrilled to announce the release of Ultralytics v8.2.60! This update brings a host of new features, improvements, and fixes to enhance your experience and streamline your workflows. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new:
Key Features and Improvements
Enhanced Documentation for Datasets: We’ve added an embedded YouTube video tutorial for the Caltech-256 dataset to help you get started with training image classification models quickly. Check it out here.
Improved Validation Scripts: Our detection and segmentation validation scripts have been refined with more precise checks for various datasets, ensuring more accurate dataset handling, especially for COCO and LVIS.
Code Cleanup: The process_mask_upsamplefunction has been removed to streamline the code and improve readability.
Version Update: We’ve incremented the version number from 8.2.59 to 8.2.60.
Export Fix: The file-moving operation in the NCNN exporter has been updated to use shutil.move()for improved reliability and clarity.
Purpose & Impact
Educational Resource: The new tutorial video in the Caltech-256 dataset documentation is a great resource for users looking to train image classification models.
Validation Accuracy: The updates to the validation scripts ensure more accurate dataset handling, which is crucial for reliable model evaluation.- Performance Enhancement: Streamlining the code by removing unnecessary functions leads to more efficient operations and simplifies maintenance.
Export Reliability: The updated file-moving operation in the exporter script minimizes errors and improves the robustness of model deployment workflows.
What’s Changed
- Allow
test-dev2017.txtfor validation by @yang-0201 in PR #14519 - Added YouTube tutorial to docs by @RizwanMunawar in PR #14525
- Fixed NCNN multiple-volumes PNNX download bug by @akukulanski in PR #14533
- Refactored
process_mask_upsampleby @Laughing-q in PR #14474
New Contributors
A big thank you to our new contributors:
- @yang-0201 made their first contribution in PR #14519
- @akukulanski made their first contribution in PR #14533
Full Changelog
For a complete list of changes, check out the full changelog.
We encourage you to try out the new release and share your feedback with us. Your input is invaluable in helping us improve and evolve Ultralytics YOLO.
Happy coding!
Release URL: Ultralytics v8.2.60