
Explainable YOLOv8: Explaining YOLOv8 Results Using Eigen-CAM
Last Updated on November 22, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Sumit Pandey
Originally published on Towards AI.
I am a big fan of YOLO (You Only Look Once) models, especially version 8. It is easy to train and deploy, even in the medical imaging domain. I recently finished a classification problem using YOLOv8, and it worked quite well. However, the main issue was its lack of an inbuilt Explainable results function like GRAD-CAM or Eigen-CAM. After searching on the internet for hours, I found a GitHub repository that does exactly what I wanted, and even more. It is also easy to use. So, let’s see how to use:
IntroductionStep cloning github repositoryImporting librariesInitializing EigenCAM
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