Koushim/yolov8-license-plate-detection

🚗 YOLOv8 License Plate Detection Model

This repository contains a YOLOv8 object detection model trained to detect license plates in real-world images. The model was trained using the Ultralytics YOLOv8 framework and can be deployed for real-time applications such as surveillance, traffic monitoring, and vehicle identification.

🧠 Model Details

• —Architecture: YOLOv8n (Nano variant)
• —Framework: Ultralytics YOLOv8
• —Task: Object Detection
• —Classes: 1 (license_plate)
• —Input resolution: 640×640
• —File: best.pt

🔧 How to Use

Install dependencies first:

pip install ultralytics

Example usage:

from ultralytics import YOLO

# Load model from HF
model = YOLO("koushik-ai/yolov8-license-plate-detection/best.pt")

# Run inference
results = model("your_image.jpg")

# Show results
results[0].show()