Converting YOLOv5 training dataset to YOLOv8

[AlainPilon]

Is there an easy way to convert a dataset exported under the YOLOv5 format/structure to a YOLOv8 format/structure?

I looked at the Supervision code and it seems like it only supports YOLOV8. The YOLOv5 method is just to load the trained model.

[SkalskiP]

Is there any difference?

[AlainPilon]

@SkalskiP Yes! For some reasons, the val/train and labels/images levels in the directory tree has been reversed. And I think the data.yaml file has some small changes too (not sure)

[AlainPilon]

In the end, I managed to process the dataset by specifying the data param to the YOLOv8 CLI and point it to the v5 dataset.yaml file. Not documented, but obvious once you know about it!

[SkalskiP]

Awesome! Nonetheless, I think it will be addressed at some point. At the moment we simply have too much work.