YOLOv8 requires ultralytics package which requires Python>=3.7 and Pytorch>=1.7. Setup Environment with \
conda install pytorch==1.10.1 torchvision==0.11.2 torchaudio==0.10.1 cudatoolkit=11.3 -c pytorch -c conda-forge
pip install ultralytics
Run validation of model by specifying the checkpoint for PATH/TO/CHECKPOINT
in
python validate.py --checkpoint PATH/TO/CHECKPOINT
tSNE plot of features before and contrastive learning.