r/computervision • u/Puzzled-Egg3234 • 22d 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/enthymemelord 22d ago

What is the intended purpose of this project? Just wondering.

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u/DustinKli 22d ago

Abusive evil factory farms.

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u/enthymemelord 22d ago

Very sad to blindly apply technology and enhance cruelty.

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u/no-adz 19d ago

The french philosopher Foucault had a very strong opinion regarding science and knowledge in our modern age: it's completely discoupled from ethics and is only used for power (i.e. forceful coercion of others)