Detecting and Counting People with YOLOv8

In this article, you’ll discover what YOLO is and how to use it to analyze a video and detect and count people within it. We’ll walk through a simple Python script that lets you configure basic parameters and choose the most appropriate video source for your needs. What is YOLO? YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a real-time object detection algorithm based on neural networks. Put simply, YOLO analyzes each video frame (whether from a file or a webcam/IP stream) to identify objects such as people, vehicles, animals, and more. ...