Conference Paper2016Cited by 44

Fish activity tracking and species identification in underwater video

Ekram Hossain, SM Shaiful Alam, Amin Ahsan Ali, M Ashraful Amin

2016 5th International conference on informatics, electronics and vision (ICIEV)

IEEE, pp. 62–66

  • Life Below Water — Relevance: 88%
DOI: 10.1109/iciev.2016.7760189URL

Abstract

In this paper we propose an automatic marine life monitoring system. First task in the monitoring process is to detect underwater moving objects as fishes. Second Task is to identify the species of the detected fish. Third task is to track the detected fish to avoid multiple counting and record their activities. Detection is performed using GMM based background subtraction method, classification is performed using Pyramid Histogram Of visual Words (PHOW) features with SVM classifier and finally identified fishes are tracked using “Kalman Filter”. This experiment is performed using data-set from the CLEF 2015. The proposed system can detect and track fishes with 48.94 percent accuracy in videos, and it can identify fishes in high resolution still image with 91.7 percent accuracy where as in the low quality video fishes are detected with 40.1 percent accuracy.

Keywords

  • underwater video
  • Kalman filter tracking
  • fish detection
  • support vector machine classification
  • fish identification
  • fish tracking

CCDS Authors

Ekram Hossain
Ekram Hossain

Ekram Hossain

  • Collaborator, HCI Wing

Research Data Engineer II

University of Rochester Medical Center

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD
Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

Amin Ahsan Ali, PhD

  • Director, AI/ML Wing

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Independent University, Bangladesh

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECCV, IJCAI, ECAI, WACV, IPSN, PAKDD, LREC, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, BEA, BLP, ICMLA, Scientific Reports, Scientific Data, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, Ad Hoc Networks, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD
M Ashraful Amin, PhD

Prof. M Ashraful Amin, PhD

  • Founder Director, CCDS
  • Director, AI/ML, HCI & DS Wings

Professor

+1 more affiliation

Department of Information Sciences and Technology

George Mason University, USA

Published at

ACL, CHI, UbiComp, ECAI, WACV, PAKDD, IJCNN, ICPR, ICIP, HCII, CLEF, BLP, Scientific Reports, JMIR, IEEE Access, Smart Agricultural Technology, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, PLOS ONE

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Cognitive & Vision Science, Cybernetics, Surveillance & Security, ICT in Education, Health, & Agriculture, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet of Things, Robotics

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