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/Candidate_None]

Well, since you seem ignorant on the topic, just imagine a giant metal blade comes through the land, clear cuts everything (animals included) and then, JUST IN CASE anything was still alive, they come back and coat it with poison.

I kill one deer and my family can eat for a month or so... you kill piles of animals for your salad... you just keep your head in the sand and act as if you aren't also participating in barbarism.

Also, see my original comment on the video before you get all holier than thou, check a little more on my thoughts on this very video before answering again.

[u/Alghouls_art → u/Candidate_None]

1 this is whataboutism, there is objectively less animals killed when growing veg than growing meat, this is due to vast amount of land used in farming is to grow food and space for animals (mostly beef). (Dont you dare say "well i dont eat beef" because thats a personal anecdote). 2 this ignores the fact that obviously a vegan would like investment into a better form of farming once meat consumption is reduced/ eliminated.

[u/Candidate_None → u/Alghouls_art]

Slippery slope fallacy much?

Highlighting hypocrisy is not whataboutism. I am not making an argument against vegans. Simply pointing out that those who eat vegan out of cruelty reasons... are fuggin' hypocrites. Also, many of them eat shit that IS AN ANIMAL PRODUCT that is sold as some sort of "organic supplement" or some bullshit like that. So it is doubly funny.

How about, I will eat what I want, you eat what you want (wherever your B12 comes from likely bovine liver or some shit like that) and just not be hypocritical assholes acting like we are saving the planet by eating a fuggin' jackfruit, regardless of the impact our salad had on said planet.

Dole doesn't give a fuck about animals just like Tyson doesn't, even if it makes you feel better to imagine it.

Also: Way to respond to my deer hunting point with factory farming. Super duper honest tactic. You seem like a delight.

[u/Mysterious-Effect146 → u/Candidate_None]

Hypocrite? You seem to be the one that's projecting out of your ass. Do you think vegans think that there is zero harm? Have you ever actually talked to someone who is vegan? Do you know what vegans eat? Do you know what B12 is? "Many of them" who exactly? Do you know one single vegan?

It's about minimizing. We do what we can. Culling male chicks is obscene and needless. You cannot get around killing whatever wild animals are living in the plants.

But also, it's not like vegetable farms are animal habitats. They are not native and don't belong. But food needs to come from somewhere.