ultralytics 8.3.55

v8.3.55 - `ultralytics 8.3.55` New Medical-pills dataset (#18389)

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🌟 Summary

The v8.3.55 release of Ultralytics YOLO introduces a new dataset, Medical Pills Detection Dataset, aimed at advancing AI applications in pharmaceutical automation, alongside several feature enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation improvements. 💊💻✨

📊 Key Changes

• New Dataset Added: Medical Pills with 92 training and 23 validation images. 🩺
• Enhanced auto_annotate Documentation: Centralized details of YOLO-SAM integration for creating segmentation datasets. 📖
• Fixed ConfusionMatrix: Corrected FP calculation logic for unmatched predictions. 🛠️
• User-Friendly Updates: Improved workflow cloning speeds and UI components for solutions workflows. 🚀
• Code Quality Upgrades: Type hinting for better flexibility, Python 3.12 support tweaks, and bug fixes. ⚙️

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Purpose:

  • Enable automation in pharmaceutical workflows, e.g., pill quality control and sorting.
  • Provide clearer usage examples for dataset annotation via YOLO-SAM tools.
  • Refine existing tools with a developer-friendly codebase.

• Impact:

  • Improved AI Training: Medical innovators can train models for specific industries using the new dataset.
  • Documentation Clarity: Ease of adoption for advanced features like hybrid YOLO-SAM workflows.
  • Bug Fixes: These ensure more accurate predictions (e.g., ConfusionMatrix FP fix) and reduce user-errors in workflows.
  • Streamlined DevOps: Faster docs deployment and CI pipelines benefit larger teams.

🚀 This release is a forward leap for developers and researchers aiming to innovate in specialized fields like healthcare!

What's Changed

• Use Any type-hints for args and kwargs by @glenn-jocher in #18372
• Update FAQ examples in callbacks.md by @Y-T-G in #18377
• Add MobileSAM auto annotation feature 🚀 by @RizwanMunawar in #18374
• Fix Docs calls to model.benchmark() by @glenn-jocher in #18391
• PyCharm Code Inspect fixes by @glenn-jocher in #18392
• Remove docs.yml fetch-depth 0 by @glenn-jocher in #18394
• Clone Docs gh-pages branch --depth 1 by @glenn-jocher in #18396
• Update image count information for COCO-Pose by @Y-T-G in #18395
• PyCharm Code Inspect fixes for Solutions and Examples by @RizwanMunawar in #18393
• Simplify links.yml by @glenn-jocher in #18399
• Code scan fixes by @glenn-jocher in #18398
• Restrict ONNX ExecutionProviders by @glenn-jocher in #18400
• Update yolo11n-pose to yolo11n in speed-estimation.md by @RizwanMunawar in #18410
• fix bug in the ConfusionMatrix class by @yuzhj in #18409
• ultralytics 8.3.55 New Medical-pills dataset by @RizwanMunawar in #18389

New Contributors

• @yuzhj made their first contribution in #18409

Full Changelog: v8.3.54...v8.3.55