---
license: apache-2.0
base_model:
- Ultralytics/YOLOv8
pipeline_tag: object-detection
tags:
- ultralytics
- yolov8
library_name: ultralytics
---

# Tennis Ball Detection with YOLOv8

This repository contains a YOLOv8n model fine-tuned specifically to detect tennis balls.

## Project Overview

The goal is to accurately detect and localize tennis balls in images and video streams using the YOLOv8 object detection framework.

## Requirements

* Python 3.8+
* Ultralytics YOLOv8
* PyTorch
* OpenCV

## Installation

Install dependencies with:

```bash
pip install ultralytics opencv-python
```

## Usage

### Detect tennis balls in an image:

```bash
yolo task=detect mode=predict model=tennisball.pt source=your_image.jpg
```

### Detect tennis balls in video/webcam:

```bash
yolo task=detect mode=predict model=tennisball.pt source=0  # webcam
```

## License

This project is open-source under the Apache License 2.0 License.