YoloV8 Object Detection model for a new Raspberry PI AI Camera (Sony IMX500)

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.