Tennis Ball Detection with YOLOv8

This repository contains a YOLOv8n model fine-tuned specifically to detect tennis balls.

Project Overview

The goal is to accurately detect and localize tennis balls in images and video streams using the YOLOv8 object detection framework.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Ultralytics YOLOv8
• PyTorch
• OpenCV

Installation

Install dependencies with:

pip install ultralytics opencv-python

Usage

Detect tennis balls in an image:

yolo task=detect mode=predict model=tennisball.pt source=your_image.jpg

Detect tennis balls in video/webcam:

yolo task=detect mode=predict model=tennisball.pt source=0  # webcam

License

This project is open-source under the Apache License 2.0 License.