Fish Species Detection Application (FiSDA) in Leyte Gulf Using Convolutional Neural Network

This study presents an application that employs a machine-learning algorithm to identify fish species found in Leyte Gulf. It aims to help students and marine scientists with their identification and data collection. The application supports 467 fish species in which 6,918 fish images are used for training, validating, and testing the generated model. The model is trained for a total of 4,000 epochs. Using convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm, the best model during training is observed at epoch 3,661 with an accuracy rate of 96.49% and a loss value of 0.1359. It obtains 82.81% with a loss value of 1.868 during validation and 80.58% precision during testing. The result shows that the model performs well in predicting Malatindok and Sapsap species, after obtaining the highest precision of 100%. However, Hangit is sometimes misclassified by the model after attaining 55% accuracy rate from the testing results because of its feature similarity to other species

LifeCLEF 2016: Multimedia Life Species Identification Challenges

International audienceUsing multimedia identification tools is considered as one of the most promising solutions to help bridge the taxonomic gap and build accurate knowledge of the identity, the geographic distribution and the evolution of living species. Large and structured communities of nature observers (e.g., iSpot, Xeno-canto, Tela Botanica, etc.) as well as big monitoring equipment have actually started to produce outstanding collections of multimedia records. Unfortunately, the performance of the state-of-the-art analysis techniques on such data is still not well understood and is far from reaching real world requirements. The LifeCLEF lab proposes to evaluate these challenges around 3 tasks related to multimedia information retrieval and fine-grained classification problems in 3 domains. Each task is based on large volumes of real-world data and the measured challenges are defined in collaboration with biologists and environmental stakeholders to reflect realistic usage scenarios. For each task, we report the methodology, the data sets as well as the results and the main outcom

A Novel Detection Refinement Technique for Accurate Identification of Nephrops norvegicus Burrows in Underwater Imagery

With the evolution of the convolutional neural network (CNN), object detection in the underwater environment has gained a lot of attention. However, due to the complex nature of the underwater environment, generic CNN-based object detectors still face challenges in underwater object detection. These challenges include image blurring, texture distortion, color shift, and scale variation, which result in low precision and recall rates. To tackle this challenge, we propose a detection refinement algorithm based on spatial–temporal analysis to improve the performance of generic detectors by suppressing the false positives and recovering the missed detections in underwater videos. In the proposed work, we use state-of-the-art deep neural networks such as Inception, ResNet50, and ResNet101 to automatically classify and detect the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus burrows from underwater videos. Nephrops is one of the most important commercial species in Northeast Atlantic waters, and it lives in burrow systems that it builds itself on muddy bottoms. To evaluate the performance of proposed framework, we collected the data from the Gulf of Cadiz. From experiment results, we demonstrate that the proposed framework effectively suppresses false positives and recovers missed detections obtained from generic detectors. The mean average precision (mAP) gained a 10% increase with the proposed refinement technique.Versión del edito