What is YOLOv8 Object Detection?
YOLOv8 is a modern AI model for object detection — software that looks at an image or video frame and identifies what is in it and where, drawing boxes around people, vehicles, bags and dozens of other object types. YOLO stands for "You Only Look Once": the model analyses the whole frame in a single pass, making it fast enough to process live video.
Applied to CCTV, YOLOv8 turns dumb recordings into searchable data: instead of an operator watching 12 hours of footage to find when a truck entered, the system lists every vehicle appearance with timestamps in minutes. Indian police and enterprises use such detection for post-incident investigation — finding all frames containing a person in a red shirt, counting footfall, or triggering alerts when someone enters a restricted zone.