New Release: Ultralytics v8.2.96

[glenn-jocher]

Ultralytics v8.2.96 Release Announcement

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Ultralytics v8.2.96! This update brings significant enhancements to data export capabilities, optimizes parking management solutions, and refines our documentation workflows. Dive into the details below to see how these improvements can elevate your projects.

Key Changes

Data Export Methods

• New Export Options: Introducing to_df(), to_csv(), and to_xml() methods for exporting results in DataFrame, CSV, and XML formats. These additions make it easier to analyze and integrate detection results with other tools.

Parking Management Optimization

• Code Simplification: We’ve streamlined the code and refactored data handling, making setup easier and boosting performance for parking management applications.

Documentation and Streaming Updates

• Improved Documentation: Enhanced the documentation process and clarified streaming capabilities. We’ve also restructured examples for single and multi-stream video processing.

Precision and Validation Enhancements

• Aligned Precision: Model validation precision is now aligned with Automatic Mixed Precision settings, ensuring consistent and reliable performance assessments.

Purpose & Impact

• Enhanced Exportability: Easily export detection results in popular formats for better data analysis and integration.
• Improved Clarity and Efficiency: Refactored parking management code for intuitive use and faster processing.
• Streamlined Documentation Workflow: More accurate and accessible resources for developers.
• Consistent Precision Handling: Reliable performance assessments and optimized computational resource use.

What’s Changed

• Disable FP16 val on AMP fail and improve AMP checks by @Y-T-G in PR #16306
• Optimize parking management solution by @RizwanMunawar in PR #16288
• Enable Docs auto-fixes on repo branches by @glenn-jocher in PR #16326
• Update Multi-Stream predict docs by @glenn-jocher in PR #16334
• Use trainer.amp to determine FP16 validation by @Laughing-q in PR #16333
• New results[0].to_df Pandas, XML and CSV methods by @MatthewNoyce in PR #16267

Full Changelog: v8.2.95…v8.2.96

We encourage you to try out the new features and improvements in this release. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so please share your thoughts and experiences. Thank you for being a part of our community!

Release URL: Ultralytics v8.2.96