YOLO v2 to YOLO v8

[7thstorm]

Greetings,
Some years ago, I had spent considerable resources training a YOLOv2 model with about a million images (3 classes). I want to see if I can leverage the last weights file to train on v8

[glenn-jocher]

@7thstorm hello, you can transfer the knowledge from your YOLOv2 model to YOLOv8 by using the YOLOv2 weights as a starting point for training YOLOv8. This process is known as transfer learning. You may need to convert the weights to a compatible format first.

[7thstorm]

Thanks That's good to know it is possible. Any idea on where to find a method for converting the weights from yolov2 to v8?

[glenn-jocher]

@7thstorm you can convert YOLOv2 weights to a format compatible with YOLOv8 using a framework like PyTorch. Look for scripts or tools online that facilitate this conversion process.