Custom object detection in Python using YOLOv8

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In this video, I discuss the YOLOv8 data format and how to train a custom object detection model using Ultralytics YOLOv8. Please note that I will be using the Python API and not the CLI. We will be detecting litter in images of water bodies! Please subscribe and like the video to help me keep motivated to make awesome videos like this one. :) My book, Approaching (Almost) Any Machine Learning problem, is available for free here: https://bit.ly/approachingml Follow me on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/abhi1thakur LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi1thakur/ Kaggle: https://kaggle.com/abhishek

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