Why there is anchors in YOLOv8 in your implementation

[evan0greenup]

According to official documentation, https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/3424, YOLOv8 use anchor-free architecture.

But why there is anchor in your implementation?

[jahongir7174]

@evan0greenup you can check following refrence link

[josht000]

@jahongir7174 I see that reference and would you say that they basically lied?

[jahongir7174]

@josht000 They did not lie. Please read the https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/3424#issuecomment-1611211842

[josht000]

@jahongir7174 I commend you on your research skills! Diving through those links helped. It's too bad Ultralytics hasn't put together a whitepaper for their work. Someone could probably do that from just their comments.

Thanks

[JinYuannn]

In general, anchor-free means that dose not require anchor boxes, but dose require anchor points.