Bee Detection and Tracking at Hive Entrance using YOLO11 and ByteTrack
The study developed an automatic bee entrance monitoring system using YOLO11 for detection and ByteTrack for tracking fast-moving bees. By optimizing data augmentation, progressive backbone freezing, and specific tracker parameters, researchers improved counting accuracy to 91.5% for incoming bees and 23.3% for outgoing ones. The findings show that these combined techniques enhance reliability in real-world video monitoring.