Road Objects Tracking System with YOLOv8 and DeepSORT

This project showcases an object tracking system that employs YOLOv8 for detection and integrates a Kalman filter for tracking, thereby implementing the DeepSORT algorithm. It is designed to identify and follow objects within a video stream.

Table of Contents

• Project Structure
• Project Demo
• Installation
• Training the Model
• Custom Training Results
• Running the System
• Dependencies

Project Structure

The project is organized into two main folders:

• system: Contains the main codebase for the object tracking system.

  • detector_model_file: Directory to store the trained YOLOv8 model weights.
  • models: Contains the implementation of various models used in the system (e.g., YOLOv8, Kalman filter).
  • utils: Contains utility functions and classes.
  • detect.py: Script to run the object detection and tracking on a video file.
  • test.mp4: Sample video file for testing the system.
  • tracker.py: Main script for the object tracking system.

• training: Contains the Jupyter notebook for training the YOLOv8 model.

  • train.ipynb: Jupyter notebook with the code for training the YOLOv8 model.
  • runs/detect/train9/weights: Directory where the trained model weights are saved.

Project Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/28b75fbd-2915-4bde-b23e-5ad19dc6ce17

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/your-repo.git
   cd your-repo

2. Install the required dependencies: Its upto you if you want to make a virtual environment, if yes then write following commands in the terminal:

   pip install virtualenv
   python -m virtualenv venv
   ./venv/Scripts/activate

   Install the requirements using following command

   pip install -r requirements.txt

   Training the Model

   In the training directory, we have jupyter notebook file which can be run cell wise to train the model. The weights will get trained and stored in runs/detect/train/weights/best.pt (model files will be present in the recent train folder which will be made with each train try) Copy the weights to system/detector_model_file/ and use this trained weights for detection.

Custom Training Results

Confusion Matrix

Labels Correlogram

P Curve

R Curve

PR Curve

Results

Running the System

1. Navigate to the system directory:

   cd ../system

2. Run the detection and tracking script:

   python detect.py

3. The script will process the test.mp4 video file and display the results with bounding boxes and tracking IDs.

Dependencies

The project requires the following dependencies, which are listed in requirements.txt:

• ultralytics
• opencv-python
• numpy
• torch
• torchvision

Ensure all dependencies are installed by running:

    pip install -r requirements.txt

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the YOLOv8 and Ultralytics teams for their excellent work on the YOLO object detection framework.

Thanks to the OpenCV community for their powerful computer vision library.

Feel free to contribute to this project by submitting issues or pull requests.