Ultralytics YOLO

🌟 Summary

Release 8.3.93 introduces a critical fix for TorchScript models with Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS), along with several documentation and usability enhancements.

📊 Key Changes

• TorchScript Fix: Resolved a loading error for TorchScript models with NMS by ensuring torchvision is imported before model loading.
• YOLOE Documentation: Added comprehensive documentation for YOLOE, a new real-time open-vocabulary detection and segmentation model.
• Documentation Improvements:
  • Updated banner image to AVIF format for faster loading.
  • Minified HTML, CSS, and JS files for improved documentation performance.
  • Enhanced parameter descriptions for export, prediction, validation, and visualization tasks.
• New Features:
  • YOLOE supports text, visual, and internal prompts for detecting unseen object classes.
  • Added stream for memory-efficient video/image processing and txt_color for customizable annotation text colors.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• TorchScript Fix: Ensures seamless loading and inference for TorchScript models, improving reliability for users deploying models in production. 🛠️
• YOLOE Introduction: Expands YOLO's capabilities to open-world scenarios, enabling detection of arbitrary objects with state-of-the-art performance while maintaining YOLO's speed. 🚀
• Documentation Enhancements:
  • Faster and more reliable documentation access due to optimized assets. ⚡
  • Clearer parameter descriptions improve usability for developers and users. 📚
• New Features:
  • YOLOE's versatility supports dynamic detection tasks, making it ideal for robotics, AR, and real-time applications. 🤖
  • Memory-efficient processing and customizable visuals enhance user experience and flexibility. 🎨

This release focuses on improving model robustness, introducing cutting-edge capabilities, and enhancing user experience through better documentation and new features.

What's Changed

• Update style.css announcement bar AVIF by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/19760
• Fix Docs CSS, Javascript and HTML minification by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/19763
• Update macros by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/19764
• Create YOLOE Docs page by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/19766
• ultralytics 8.3.93 Fix TorchScript Model with NMS loading error by @Y-T-G in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/19747

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.3.92...v8.3.93