Novice Question: Identifying Overlapping Objects

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This is a very very novice question, so I apologize if this is inappropriate to ask. I just couldn't find any clear questions after scouring the net.

So essentially my goal is to count the number of pencil crayons in those old school plastic pencil boxes from grade school. However, the pencil crayons are in 2 to 3 layers so they overlap. I had initially used Yolov8 to draw bounding boxes around each of them, but I read …

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