Unboxing Loss Functions in YOLOv8

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Introduction

YOLO has long been one of the first go-to models for object detection tasks. It’s fast and accurate. Besides, the API is concise and easy to work on. The lines of code required to run a training or inference job are limited. After YOLOv8 introduced pose estimation in the framework in the second half of 2023, the framework now supports up to four tasks including classification, object…