Optimizing YOLOv8n using hOSVD for efficient object detection: towards real-time video surveillance applications
摘要
In this paper, we propose a novel model compression approach for YOLOv8n - the lightweight variant of YOLOv8 - by applying Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD) to its 2D convolutional layers. We introduce an efficient strategy to decompose and fine-tune the network, achieving significant parameter reduction with minimal performance loss. Experimental results on the COCO dataset demonstrate that our compressed model reduces the number of parameters by up to 50% , while maintaining high detection accuracy with only a 7.77% drop in mAP@0.5 . Furthermore, the proposed architecture improves inference speed by up to 17.86% , as measured by frames per second (FPS), showing its potential for real-time applications and future deployment on resource-constrained devices.