🌟 Summary

The v8.2.81 release of Ultralytics YOLO introduces significant documentation improvements and a refined model upload process to enhance usability and reliability for machine learning practitioners.

📊 Key Changes

• Documentation Enhancements: Updated how code examples and citations are presented across various dataset guides to improve readability and user accessibility.
• Model Upload Process: Improved handling of model uploads with added safeguards and informative logging, particularly in transient environments like Google Colab.
• Technical Adjustment: Corrected bounding box conversion details in the results module, changing from top-left coordinates to center-point coordinates.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Easier Understanding and Use: The new documentation format with examples in both Python and CLI makes it more straightforward for users to implement various datasets in their projects.
• Robust Model Management: Enhanced model upload functionality ensures continuity and mitigates issues in cloud-based environments, promoting more reliable training sessions.
• Accurate Representation: The bounding box conversion adjustment aligns technical descriptions with actual functionalities, ensuring users correctly apply transformations.

What's Changed

• Add https://youtu.be/WwXnljc7ZUM to docs by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15751
• Improve Docs dataset layout issues by @jk4e in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15696
• Fix xywh docstring by @Laughing-q in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15765
• Ensure matplotlib backend gets reset with plt_settings by @rschroll in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15759
• ultralytics 8.2.81 fix HUB missing 'best.pt' resumed checkpoint upload by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15754

New Contributors

• @rschroll made their first contribution in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15759

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.2.80...v8.2.81