deepstream_yolo/docs/YOLOv8.md

YOLOv8 usage

NOTE: The yaml file is not required.

• Convert model
• Compile the lib
• Edit the config_infer_primary_yoloV8 file
• Edit the deepstream_app_config file
• Testing the model

Convert model

1. Download the YOLOv8 repo and install the requirements

git clone https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics.git
cd ultralytics
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py install
pip3 install onnx onnxsim onnxruntime

NOTE: It is recommended to use Python virtualenv.

2. Copy conversor

Copy the export_yoloV8.py file from DeepStream-Yolo/utils directory to the ultralytics folder.

3. Download the model

Download the pt file from YOLOv8 releases (example for YOLOv8s)

wget https://github.com/ultralytics/assets/releases/download/v0.0.0/yolov8s.pt

NOTE: You can use your custom model.

4. Convert model

Generate the ONNX model file (example for YOLOv8s)

python3 export_yoloV8.py -w yolov8s.pt --simplify --dynamic

NOTE: To change the inference size (defaut: 640)

-s SIZE
--size SIZE
-s HEIGHT WIDTH
--size HEIGHT WIDTH

Example for 1280

-s 1280

or

-s 1280 1280

5. Copy generated files

Copy the generated ONNX model file and labels.txt file (if generated) to the DeepStream-Yolo folder.

Compile the lib

Open the DeepStream-Yolo folder and compile the lib

• DeepStream 6.2 on x86 platform

  CUDA_VER=11.8 make -C nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo
  

• DeepStream 6.1.1 on x86 platform

  CUDA_VER=11.7 make -C nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo
  

• DeepStream 6.1 on x86 platform

  CUDA_VER=11.6 make -C nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo
  

• DeepStream 6.0.1 / 6.0 on x86 platform

  CUDA_VER=11.4 make -C nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo
  

• DeepStream 6.2 / 6.1.1 / 6.1 on Jetson platform

  CUDA_VER=11.4 make -C nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo
  

• DeepStream 6.0.1 / 6.0 on Jetson platform

  CUDA_VER=10.2 make -C nvdsinfer_custom_impl_Yolo
  

Edit the config_infer_primary_yoloV8 file

Edit the config_infer_primary_yoloV8.txt file according to your model (example for YOLOv8s with 80 classes)

[property]
...
onnx-file=yolov8s.onnx
model-engine-file=yolov8s.onnx_b1_gpu0_fp32.engine
...
num-detected-classes=80
...
parse-bbox-func-name=NvDsInferParseYolo
...

NOTE: The YOLOv8 resizes the input with center padding. To get better accuracy, use

maintain-aspect-ratio=1
symmetric-padding=1

Edit the deepstream_app_config file

...
[primary-gie]
...
config-file=config_infer_primary_yoloV8.txt

Testing the model

deepstream-app -c deepstream_app_config.txt

NOTE: The TensorRT engine file may take a very long time to generate (sometimes more than 10 minutes).

NOTE: For more information about custom models configuration (batch-size, network-mode, etc), please check the docs/customModels.md file.