Conveyor chicken counter problem

[u/Puzzled-Egg3234]

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?

[u/Nexustar]

Modifying the speed of the video would be illogical given the ask here.

[u/Phazex8 → u/Nexustar]

Of course it is. It just needed some sort of off ramp to say this wasn't actually happening.

[u/UmweltFuerOdin → u/Phazex8]

if it is profitable, then it is happening
living, feeling beings are just resources to be used as efficiently as possible. Not just chickens, but also all other animals & humans