
Joseph Lee Manager • over 8 years ago
Problem Statement 15-23: "Develop a passive visual fish recognition system for recreational fishers."
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Background
In recreational fisheries, it's common for well-intentioned amateurs to violate regulations because they have mis-identified their catch. Potentially, techniques similar to those used in facial-recognition could be used to identify species of fish. 'Fishal' recognition? If it were possible, anglers could correctly follow the regs, and the data, with GPS coordinates, could supplement scientific surveys.
Problem Statement
How could we identify a fish species at sea with minimal user participation using a mobile phone or tablet?
Core Category
Conservation
Organization Name
NOAA Fisheries
Organization Address
55 Great Republic Dr.
Organization Point of Contact (Name)
Torey Adler
Organization Point of Contact (Title)
IT Specialist
Organization Point of Contact (Phone Number)
978-675-2183
Organization Point of Contact (Email Address)
torey.adler@noaa.gov
Focus Area
Fisheries Management
Solution Category
Software
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3 comments
Andrew McPherson • over 8 years ago
I would like to know if anyone knows of any databases of fish species that store meristics, dichotomous, and locality specific data. If they had an api that would be ideal, but any suggestions will be appricated.
Kate Wing • over 8 years ago
fishbase.de is the most comprehensive database of stats and images. Peter Belhumeur built an ID base for the image recognition app they built with IGFA that covered about 25 Florida species, but if there's an API it may have been lost in his move to Dropbox from Columbia.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/09/dropbox-computer-vision/
http://www.igfacatchlog.org/
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/msfindx0.asp
David Kotval • over 8 years ago
Andrew and I have been working on this. Check out our project: http://challengepost.com/software/fishy-species-identifier