🌟 Summary

The 'v8.3.13' release primarily focuses on refactoring the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to enhance prompt handling and documentation clarity.

📊 Key Changes

• 📘 Documentation improvements with updated examples for the model method.
• 🔄 Code refactoring introduces a new function _prepare_prompts to manage prompt preparations in SAM.
• 📦 Enhanced prompt handling for bounding boxes, points, labels, and masks.
• 🗑️ Cleaned up duplicated logging in YOLO training for simpler outputs.
• 💤 Added a 60-second delay to improve deployment stability in GitHub Actions.
• 📊 Fixed subplot indexing for clearer result plots in classification, segmentation, and pose.
• 🍇 Updated Raspberry Pi guide for YOLO11.
• 📈 With every precision metric, ensure it's returned for consistency with or without plotting.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• 📝 Documentation Clarity: Clearer examples help users better understand model functionalities.
• 🔧 Efficiency & Maintainability: By moving prompt processing to a new function, the code is now easier to maintain and modify in the future.
• 🚀 User Experience: Improved multiple points and labels handling in SAM provides a better user experience for image segmentation tasks.
• 📉 Logging: Cleaner training logs mean users can more easily follow the training progress without unnecessary clutter.
• 🛠️ Stability & Reliability: Delaying deployment steps helps ensure smoother execution in CI/CD workflows, thus increasing user trust in automated deployments.
• 📊 Visual Clarity: Fixes to plotting result in more intuitive and easily interpretable visual outputs, aiding better analysis and decision-making.
• 🥝 Guides Update: Raspberry Pi users can leverage the latest YOLO11 advances with tailored guidance, benefiting from performance improvements.

What's Changed

• Clean up duplicated classify logging by @Laughing-q in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16901
• Sleep 60s before triggering deploy actions by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16881
• Fix results.csv plotting by @Laughing-q in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16898
• Update Raspberry Pi Guide with YOLO11 by @lakshanthad in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16899
• Always return Precision metric regardless of plot arg by @Y-T-G in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16900
• Update Dockerfile-runner v2.320.0 by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16912
• Use EdgeTPU export --delegate_search_step 30 by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16910
• Update distance-calculation solution by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16907
• Add YOLO11 🚀 NEW link in docs homepage by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16875
• ultralytics 8.3.13 SAM prompt-inference refactor by @Laughing-q in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16894

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.3.12...v8.3.13