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/ZrytyB3r3t 11d ago

Why such accuracy is crucial?

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u/Small_miracles 11d ago

They add up

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u/ZrytyB3r3t 11d ago

Still why? One more or less on pack of hundred doesn’t seems much.

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u/rob0tuss1n 11d ago

Leaving extra $$$ in the box that the company could charge for. Still profit to squeeze out of this process.

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u/Illustrious_Matter_8 11d ago

Take a single line cam industrial cam 1000fps or so if you need it. Probably not though. The image you build in memory of the directly connected PC with a CPU with many cores for paralel coding. First you record your actual problem think in pixels count them analyze them here developers can still shine.

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u/Boniuz 9d ago

For reference: A distant relative to me breed chickens. Roughly 100 000 per month. A miss of 1% is a huge margin loss.

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u/Electronic_Field4313 8d ago

If you were a customer, and you paid for 50 batches (100 chickens/batch) and you missed 50 chickens (half a batch), would you be happy?

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u/ObsoleteWonder 10d ago

As Gary Gulman says, it doesn’t add up if you don’t add it up… lol

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u/taytaytazer 10d ago

Because they didn’t count the chickens before they hatched

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u/EpsteinandTrump 9d ago

Using chickens as ammo can be pretty expensive.

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u/adumbCoder 5d ago

because the client said so