Implementation of YOLOv8-seg on store products to speed up the scanning process at point of sales

Abstract

<p>You only look once v8 (YOLOv8)-seg and its variants are implemented to accelerate the collection of goods for a store for selling activity in Indonesia. The method used here is object detection and segmentation of these objects, a combination of detection and segmentation called instance segmentation. The novelty lies in the customization and optimization of YOLOv8-seg for detecting and segmenting 30 specific Indonesian products. The use of augmented data (125 images augmented into 1,250 images) enhances the model's ability to generalize and perform well in various scenarios. The small number of data points and the small number of epochs have proven reliable algorithms to implement on store products instead of using QR codes in a digital manner. Five models are examined, i.e., YOLOv8-seg, YOLOv8s-seg, YOLOv8m-seg, YOLOv8l-seg, and YOLOv8x-seg, with a data distribution of 64% for the training dataset, 16% for the validation dataset, and 20% for the testing dataset. The best model, YOLOv8l-seg, was obtained with the highest mean average precision (mAP) box value of 99.372% and a mAPmask value of 99.372% from testing the testing dataset. However, the YOLOv8mseg model can be the best alternative model with a mAPbox value of 99.330% since the number of parameters and the computational speed are the best compared to other models.</p>