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v8.4.7 - `ultralytics 8.4.7` AVIF training and new COCO12-Formats dataset (#23358)
🌟 Summary
Ultralytics v8.4.7 adds AVIF training support and a new COCO12-Formats mini-dataset to continuously verify that all supported image types load correctly end-to-end (especially in CI) 🧪🖼️
📊 Key Changes
- AVIF is now a supported training image format ✅📷
IMG_FORMATSexpanded to includeavif
- More robust image decoding for modern formats 🛡️
- Adds a Pillow-based fallback image reader (
_imread_pil) for cases where OpenCV can’t decode AVIF/HEIC
- Adds a Pillow-based fallback image reader (
- New “COCO12-Formats” dataset + generator script 🧰
- A tiny 12-image dataset covering all supported extensions (AVIF, BMP, DNG, HEIC, JP2, JPEG, JPG, MPO, PNG, TIF, TIFF, WebP)
- Includes a dataset YAML and a () to build the set for testing/validation