Contest Underway to Use AI for Fish Counting, Recognition in New England Video Fleet Monitoring
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ecoRI.org] - October 06, 2017
Tools developed will help groundfish monitoring and better protect fish populations
More than 300 teams and individuals have joined a two-month competition to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help New England fishermen provide accurate catch information in a cost-effective manner on groundfishing trips.
The technologies developed in the competition will be applied to video coming from commercial fishermen in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire who are using video cameras to meet their federal fisheries monitoring requirements. The fishermen are collaborating with The Nature Conservancy, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance and the Maine Coast...
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