scholarly journals Automatic Fish Population Counting by Machine Vision and a Hybrid Deep Neural Network Model

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 364
Author(s):  
Song Zhang ◽  
Xinting Yang ◽  
Yizhong Wang ◽  
Zhenxi Zhao ◽  
Jintao Liu ◽  
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In intensive aquaculture, the number of fish in a shoal can provide valuable input for the development of intelligent production management systems. However, the traditional artificial sampling method is not only time consuming and laborious, but also may put pressure on the fish. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes an automatic fish counting method based on a hybrid neural network model to realize the real-time, accurate, objective, and lossless counting of fish population in far offshore salmon mariculture. A multi-column convolution neural network (MCNN) is used as the front end to capture the feature information of different receptive fields. Convolution kernels of different sizes are used to adapt to the changes in angle, shape, and size caused by the motion of fish. Simultaneously, a wider and deeper dilated convolution neural network (DCNN) is used as the back end to reduce the loss of spatial structure information during network transmission. Finally, a hybrid neural network model is constructed. The experimental results show that the counting accuracy of the proposed hybrid neural network model is up to 95.06%, and the Pearson correlation coefficient between the estimation and the ground truth is 0.99. Compared with CNN- and MCNN-based methods, the accuracy and other evaluation indices are also improved. Therefore, the proposed method can provide an essential reference for feeding and other breeding operations.

Offline Signature recognition plays an important role in Forensic issues. In this paper, we explore Signature Identification and Verification using features extracted from pretrained Convolution Neural Network model (Alex Net). All the experiments are performed on signatures from three dataset (SigComp2011) (Dutch, Chinese), SigWiComp2013 (Japanese) and SigWIcomp2015 (Italian). The result shows that features extracted from pretrained Deep Convolution neural network and SVM as classifier show better results than that of Decision Tree. The accuracy of more than 96% for Japanese, Italian, Dutch and Chinese Signatures is obtained with Deep Convolution neural network and SVM as classifier.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 6512
Author(s):  
Mario Tovar ◽  
Miguel Robles ◽  
Felipe Rashid

Due to the intermittent nature of solar energy, accurate photovoltaic power predictions are very important for energy integration into existing energy systems. The evolution of deep learning has also opened the possibility to apply neural network models to predict time series, achieving excellent results. In this paper, a five layer CNN-LSTM model is proposed for photovoltaic power predictions using real data from a location in Temixco, Morelos in Mexico. In the proposed hybrid model, the convolutional layer acts like a filter, extracting local features of the data; then the temporal features are extracted by the long short-term memory network. Finally, the performance of the hybrid model with five layers is compared with a single model (a single LSTM), a CNN-LSTM hybrid model with two layers and two well known popular benchmarks. The results also shows that the hybrid neural network model has better prediction effect than the two layer hybrid model, the single prediction model, the Lasso regression or the Ridge regression.


Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 632 ◽  
Author(s):  
You-Da Jhong ◽  
Chang-Shian Chen ◽  
Hsin-Ping Lin ◽  
Shien-Tsung Chen

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