Object Detection on the Cloud with YOLOv8

YOLOv8, released by Ultralytics as a successor to YOLOv5, builds on the YOLO family’s single-pass object-detection approach, which predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities efficiently for applications including edge devices. The post highlights YOLOv8’s open-source Ultralytics package, which offers installation through pip, an expanded command-line interface and Python API for training, validation, prediction, and export to formats such as ONNX, TensorRT, and TorchScript, along with support for multiple YOLO versions and an anchor-free design. It then demonstrates exporting a trained model to TorchScript and serving it through Lightning’s PythonServer component by defining setup and prediction methods, exposing an API that accepts an image URL and returns detected class labels. The deployment can run locally or on Lightning AI’s cloud platform, and wrapping the server in Lightning’s AutoScaler component enables automatic scaling in response to traffic.

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