⚽ Football Player Detection using YOLOv8

📌 Introduction

This project demonstrates football player detection in match videos using YOLOv8.
The model is pretrained on the COCO dataset and detects the person class to identify players on the field.

The notebook processes input video, performs object detection, and saves an annotated output video.

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🚀 Model

• YOLOv8 (Ultralytics)
• Pretrained model (no custom training)

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🛠 Technologies

• Python
• OpenCV
• Ultralytics YOLO
• NumPy

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Link to datasets:

• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/iasadpanwhar/football-player-detection-yolov8