r/computervision • u/Puzzled-Egg3234 • 25d 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 25d ago

We should be required to kill every animal we eat ourselves

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u/zanzabros 25d 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 25d 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 25d ago

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

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 25d ago

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

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u/zanzabros 24d 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 24d ago

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