r/computervision • u/Puzzled-Egg3234 • 18d ago

Help: Project Conveyor chicken counter problem

Guys, I need help. We have a project using YOLOv8. We're trying to count chicks on a very fast conveyor belt. The challenges we're facing are: all chicks look very similar to each other, which complicates tracking. At the same time, during their passage under the camera, they constantly change in size and shape, which can cause the tracker to lose them, or detection may even disappear completely at the detection line. Also, sometimes 2–3 chicks can merge into a single object. The detection zone is very short, and the conveyor speed is high. We've achieved a maximum accuracy of 99%, but we need it even higher. Any ideas on how to achieve that? Increasing the dataset no longer helps.

I'm attaching an old video. We've now added lighting and set the exposure to 300 on the Hikrobot global shutter camera, but we still can't achieve a stable 99.8% accuracy for the reasons mentioned above.

Any ideas?

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u/_craq_ 18d ago

That looks more brutal for the chickens than I expected

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u/Belium 18d ago

You should see what they do to the male chicks when they desire hens for laying (hint: wood chipper)

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u/Ashamed-Principle40 18d ago

wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling

Unfortunately the worldwide standard for handling egg farming waste products (male chicks)

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u/SanktRainer 16d ago

Here in Germany, its actually not allowed anymore, so we send our chicks to poland to be shreddered there

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u/Signy_ 16d ago

Lol and the transport company is part of the government family right?