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YoloV8 Object Detection model for a new Raspberry PI AI Camera (Sony IMX500)
3 min readNov 2, 2024
Raspberry Pi and Sony recently released a new AI camera, providing various models in their repository.
If we explore their model zoo, we can see many options — except for the popular YOLO model.
Does the SONY IMX500 support it?
The answer is yes — it does. Let’s find it.
As usual, this article is available in a YouTube video:
Investigation
The official documentation says that YoloV8 exists for a Raspberry PI:
Let’s start by Googling ‘Sony IMX500 YOLOv8.’
We find some GitHub links, and they lead to 404 pages.