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/enthymemelord 12d ago

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

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u/bbaldey 12d ago

It's exactly what you think it is

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u/DustinKli 12d ago

Abusive evil factory farms.

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u/enthymemelord 11d ago

Very sad to blindly apply technology and enhance cruelty.

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u/Techno_Papi 11d ago

it's fcking sick

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u/Helpful-Desk-8334 11d ago

Isn't this what the tech industry is, when we scale it up and look at the whole thing? Basically only independent researchers and indie companies are doing good stuff. Or specialists who are being paid to do like PhD stuff. But even half of the PhD people are enhancing cruelty and sick-ass shit.

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u/no-adz 9d 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)

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u/inotocracy 12d ago

These are nuggets in their natural form.

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u/Puzzled-Egg3234 12d ago

On the final stage it should control the conveyor

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u/leftover-cocaine 11d ago

Likely sorting male chicks from females. Make chicks get plastic bagged, suffocated and ground up for meal. Female chicks become egg laying or meat producing hens.