I'm busy with another competition now, but if anyone finds any use in my code I'd be glad to think it has been helpful. I was inspired initially by @rashid0784's starter to try YOLOv8 and it worked pretty well out of the box, once I'd figured out how to set up the dataset. Here is my code, which I ran locally using a conda installation of PyTorch:
Thanks for sharing. I played around with yolov8 and my best was 0.33. will certainly explore and learn from your code.
Wow! Very clean setup! Many thanks, I am trying to move past detectron2.