Looking inside the Ocean: Toward an Autonomous Imaging System for Monitoring Gelatinous Zooplankton.

ABSTRACT: Marine plankton abundance and dynamics in the open and interior ocean is still an unknown field. The knowledge of gelatinous zooplankton distribution is especially challenging, because this type of plankton has a very fragile structure and cannot be directly sampled using traditional net based techniques. To overcome this shortcoming, Computer Vision techniques can be successfully used for the automatic monitoring of this group.This paper presents the GUARD1 imaging system, a low-cost stand-alone instrument for underwater image acquisition and recognition of gelatinous zooplankton, and discusses the performance of three different methodologies, Tikhonov Regularization, Support Vector Machines and Genetic Programming, that have been compared in order to select the one to be run onboard the

SUBMITTER: Corgnati L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5191104 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature