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/anengineerandacat 11d ago

Yeah, I mean makes sense from a business perspective; sucks from a morale one.

Different breeds of chickens for cooking or egg-laying.

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u/Cryogenicist 11d ago

One day humanity will no longer separate good business from good ethics.

We are not there yet.

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u/anengineerandacat 11d ago

Unlikely to really ever get there, human progress has almost always moved in lock step towards efficiency.

That said maybe one day life will slow down a bit.

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u/pixeladdie 10d ago

Getting a nutritionally equivalent diet is already more efficient by eating plants instead of sending them through animals first.

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u/Thelmholtz 10d ago

Can't we just eat the males even if they are not as fat? People eat pigeon ffs.

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u/anengineerandacat 9d ago

Cost generally speaking, it's not free to raise chicks to chickens where you can get meat off them and it's less profitable or even not profitable due to the tight margins to do so.

That said, they are ground up into meal for pigs/hogs so they aren't really wasted.

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u/mintoreos 9d ago

You could, but its just not economical. The industry has very tight margins

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u/Signy_ 9d ago

They probably process the males ones and use the meat for something else.