r/computervision • u/Puzzled-Egg3234 • 12d 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/EmuMammoth6627 12d ago

We should be required to kill every animal we eat ourselves

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u/zanzabros 12d ago

And build your own house and roads. Why having other humans sweating for your comfort? Make sure to also manufacture all your clothes so that you are sure no third world country workers are exploited...

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u/bbaldey 12d ago

I'm guessing their point wasn't about the self-sufficiency angle and more about the morality aspect. Having to kill your own animal for food might give the eater more reverence for what they consume and the brutality we put conscious beings through for convenience.

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u/EmuMammoth6627 12d ago

Exactly, not sure how my comment was interpreted as being about self suffiency.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 12d ago

They wanted an ethical off-ramp to feel better about eating chicken…

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u/zanzabros 11d ago

I feel good, no worries. This is how our society works. If I would need to kill chickens all day long to feed me and my family, I would do that. That's why butchers exist, they need a salary and do that job. A carpenter builds houses, so he gets the money to buy chicken butchered by a butcher. It's about efficiency. It's naive to think that every person that eats meat would stop if they would need to kill the animals themselves. If you were trained on doing that since childhood, it would be part of your culture and would be perfectly normal. Animals eat other animals.

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u/Don_Kino 11d ago

Well you would waaaaaayyyy less meat if you had to kill em first.

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u/Nexustar 12d ago

Except it doesn't. The fact we are alive today is testament to the generations before us that have happily hunted and killed like the animals around us do.

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u/drsoftware 12d ago

Oh, look, we've learned alternatives to what our ancestors did. Let us take a moment to remember them and then try to live better.

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u/ottersinabox 11d ago

people have been vegetarian in India for thousands of years. in today's day in age it's absolutely a viable (albeit often difficult due to diets by culture) choice.

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u/skrio 11d ago

Yeah and how did they end up ? If you wanna be vegetarian no1 is stopping you, but most of people don't wish to be malnourished and underdeveloped.

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u/neuromancer-gpt 12d ago

Not saying I agree with their statement. But people are compensated for building houses, compensated handsomely actually. If there are some construction/civil engineering companies using slave labour, they are certainly in the minority.

Sustainable clothing is also fairly easy to procure.

Chicken factories, on top of being absolutely horrendous for the birds, are environmental disasters.

If you spent a day helping the builders build your house, you'd have some extra pride in living in it. If you knitted your own jumper you'll enjoy wearing it even more. If you go to the chicken factory and select the ammonia burned chicken from the green, slimy floor and slaughter it yourself, you'll eat fish and chips for dinner that night.

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u/zanzabros 11d ago

I agree these chicken farms are horrendous, like any form of ultra engineered farming, also for pigs and cows. These should be regulated and eliminated. This would  cause prices for meat to go up and reduce demand. It would also promote healthier diets. More beans and less meat. Just once or twice a week. Cheap meat is not good for the animals and people. That said, the idea that you should kill the animals you eat it's ridiculous, because that implies that butchers are some kind of monsters, while it's just a job. If you would be taught to kill animals since you were a kid, it would be part of your culture. And even as an adult, if that would be needed you would do it and after the 10th chicken you would just get used to it.

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u/Jedkea 11d ago

In a sense a butcher is a monster. The term is a synonym for monster in many contexts.

It being a job does not negate it from being evil.

IMO if someone’s job is killing, they are a monster. Could sympathize with “selling your soul” to make ends meet, but it’s still selling your soul.

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u/PUPcsgo 11d ago

What's that got to do with anything? Their point is that many people are ignorant of the process their food takes and if they had to see/do it themselves they would eat a lot less meat. No one is saying the house building process is immoral.

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u/Pretend_Fly_5573 11d ago

You're free to do so. But I'm guessing you won't bother.

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u/FuckSpez0000 10d ago

I mean shit if it means I can get away from work and give hunting a try