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In-house object detector for finding queen bees among worker bees, drones, pollen bees, and frame/background content.

Repository: https://github.com/Gratheon/models-queen-bee-detector

It supports two deployment paths:

  • browser inference for Live Queen Finder via ONNX + onnxruntime-web
  • HTTP inference service for server-side experiments and integrations

Baseline training setup:

  • Model: yolov8n.pt
  • Image size: 512
  • Epochs: 60
  • Dataset: merged queen datasets with queen labels normalized to class queen and non-queen images kept as negative/background samples

Test metrics (weights/best.pt):

  • Precision: 0.9727
  • Recall: 0.8590
  • mAP50: 0.9187
  • mAP50-95: 0.6114

Precision is high, but recall still leaves room for missed queens, so detections should be confirmed visually in field use.

Live Queen Finder detection example