🌟 Summary

The v8.2.89 release of the Ultralytics package brings significant improvements to the object counting capability, enhancing detection accuracy by refining intersection logic and removing redundant parameters.

📊 Key Changes

• Removed unused parameters like track_thickness, line_dist_thresh, and cls_txtdisplay_gap.
• Introduced a new static method does_intersect for better intersection checking.
• Improved logic for counting objects crossing a designated line.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Code Simplification: By eliminating unused parameters, the code is more streamlined and easier to handle.
• Enhanced Precision: Object counting is now more accurate due to refined intersection detection methods.
• User Experience: Improved reliability in object tracking applications benefits users with more accurate data analysis, making practical deployments more effective.

Additional improvements in the release include updates to documentation, such as the addition of new recognition entries for authors and the inclusion of useful video tutorials to aid in user understanding of specific features like deploying YOLOv8 on NVIDIA Jetson platforms. These enhancements ensure improved transparency, recognition, and usability for both documentation and practical deployment scenarios.

What's Changed

• Add not.committed.yet mkdocs author by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16049
• Add https://youtu.be/wWmXKIteRLA to docs by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16063
• Pass args when creating validator for classification by @Y-T-G in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16025
• Fix _predict_augment and add warning by @Laughing-q in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16056
• CoreML export: updated nms flag for end2end models by @ambitious-octopus in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16058
• Fix gitignore to format Docs datasets by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16071
• Update to lowercase MkDocs admonitions by @MatthewNoyce in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15990
• ultralytics 8.2.89 Increased line_counter Solutions accuracy by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16033

New Contributors

• @MatthewNoyce made their first contribution in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/15990

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.2.88...v8.2.89