This was front page for a while last week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Meta Segment Anything Model 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982073 - Nov 2025 (133 comments)

p.s. This was lobbed onto the frontpage by the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308) and I need to make sure we don't end up with duplicate threads that way.

what is old is new again

There is a similar project for rabbit deterrence that might give some helpful ideas on the approach: https://blog.roboflow.com/rabbit-deterrence-system/

Awesome, thanks for the link! The vision portion is very much what I'm imagining for my deer deterrent.

step-by-step tutorial for object tracking with YOLOv5 and ByteTRACK to track players on a football field

This paper (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57058-3_...) might help and is available on github (https://github.com/nimiq/qr-scanner).