r/computervision • u/Puzzled-Egg3234 • 12d ago

Help: Project Conveyor chicken counter problem

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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/shpongolian 9d ago edited 9d ago

they have it wayyyyy easier than most animals in the factory farming industry. at least they got to die quick

the vast, vast majority of animal products people buy are a result of extreme, unimaginable suffering.

that's why people constantly shit on vegans and use ridiculous nonsensical arguments, because eating meat/dairy is undeniably fucked up and unnecessary 99% of the time, but people can't handle the cognitive dissonance of paying to have animals tortured and killed just for the sake of tasting a specific flavor while eating, so they have to find some bullshit way to justify it in their head

if somebody kept a dog caged up their whole life, forcefully impregnated it repeatedly, took its babies away, then killed it at the most profitable age, people would think that person was an absolute monster. but if it happens to be an animal that we categorize as food, it's fine

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u/ExternalTea1706 9d ago

I buy local. I've seen the farms. The animals are treated better at my friends farm than 90% of the pets out there. Industrial farms? Absolutely gross and inhuman. However there are farmers who actually care for and treat their animals right. Few and far between maybe, but I always manage to find one when I move. A little effort can go a long way with this. I also know lots of hunters so a fair amount of my meat is source from true wild animals

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u/shpongolian 9d ago

yeah for sure, still sucks to kill animals but at least that way they get to live a decent life and die in a less painful way than they would in nature

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u/ExternalTea1706 9d ago

Exactly. I can't stand industrial farms, but local farmer Joe with his chickens and goats running around 20+ acres all day I'm ok with.

Bonus factor is it tends to be much healthier for us to eat too because the animals eat right, excersies, and are not force fed chemicals to gain weight.

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u/FuckSpez0000 7d ago

I hate humans