Flower-counting pipeline scores perfectly only because its simulator and detector are tuned to each other

The author argues that the Bloom-Counter project's reported 99.7% detection recall says little about real-world performance. The simulator paints flowers in colors chosen to fit the detector's HSV ranges, and its scoring compares only totals rather than matching individual objects. To test this, the unmodified detector was run on simulated scenes under altered lighting and with leaf occlusion and clustered blooms added. Stricter per-object scoring still gave a perfect score on the original scenes, which the author attributes to the co-tuned design. The stress tests were then used to measure how the detector fails and whether two simple remedies help.