How to Use YOLOv8 for Real-Time Football Player and Ball Detection: Computer Vision Tutorial

Steps to run Code

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/noorkhokhar99/YOLOv8-football.git

• Goto cloned folder

cd YOLOv8-football

• Install the ultralytics package

pip install ultralytics==8.0.0

• Do Tracking with mentioned command below

#imagefile
python filename.py

video

yolo task=detect mode=predict model=yolov8m-football.pt conf=0.25 imgsz=1280 line_thickness=1 source=test.mp4

yolo task=detect mode=predict model=yolov8s-football.pt conf=0.25 imgsz=1280 line_thickness=1 source=test.mp4

Results

YOLOv8s face detection

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