Ultralytics Release v8.3.13
Summary
We’re excited to announce the release of Ultralytics v8.3.13! This update focuses on enhancing the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with improved prompt handling and clearer documentation. Dive into the details below to see how these changes can benefit your projects.
Key Changes
New Features
- Enhanced Prompt Handling: Improved management for bounding boxes, points, labels, and masks in SAM.
- Documentation Improvements: Updated examples for the
modelmethod to help you better understand functionalities.
Improvements
- Code Refactoring: Introduction of
_prepare_promptsfunction for efficient prompt processing. - Logging Cleanup: Simplified YOLO training logs for a clearer view of your training progress.
- Deployment Stability: Added a 60-second delay in GitHub Actions for smoother CI/CD workflows.
- Plotting Fixes: Corrected subplot indexing for clearer result visualization in classification, segmentation, and pose tasks.
- Raspberry Pi Guide Update: Latest YOLO11 advancements now included for Raspberry Pi users.
Bug Fixes
- Precision Metric Consistency: Ensured precision metrics are returned consistently, with or without plotting.
Purpose & Impact
- Documentation Clarity: Enhanced examples make it easier to grasp model functionalities.
- Efficiency & Maintainability: Refactored code is now more maintainable and adaptable.
- User Experience: Improved handling in SAM enhances image segmentation tasks.
- Stability & Reliability: Deployment improvements increase trust in automated processes.
- Visual Clarity: Better plots aid in intuitive analysis and decision-making.
What’s Changed
- Clean up duplicated classify logging by @Laughing-q
- Sleep 60s before triggering deploy actions by @glenn-jocher
- Fix results.csv plotting by @Laughing-q
- Update Raspberry Pi Guide with YOLO11 by @lakshanthad
- Always return Precision metric by @Y-T-G
- Update Dockerfile-runner v2.320.0 by @glenn-jocher
- Use EdgeTPU export
--delegate_search_step 30by @glenn-jocher - Update
distance-calculationsolution by @RizwanMunawar - Add
YOLO11 🚀 NEWlink in docs homepage by @RizwanMunawar - SAM prompt-inference refactor by @Laughing-q
Full Changelog: v8.3.12…v8.3.13
Try It Out!
We invite you to explore the new features and improvements in v8.3.13. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so please share your thoughts and experiences. Happy experimenting!