Ultralytics YOLOv8

YOLOv8 is the latest version of YOLO (You Only Look Once), a real-time object detection framework developed by Ultralytics. It detects objects (people, cars, animals, defects) in images and video at high speed (30+ FPS on GPU) and high accuracy. Unlike older two-stage detectors, YOLO is end-to-end and single-stage, making it suitable for real-time applications. You use the Ultralytics Python library: load pre-trained models, fine-tune on custom data, and deploy to GPUs, CPUs, or edge devices (Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson). YOLOv8 supports object detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, and more—all in one framework.