Computer Science
Automatic in situ identification of plankton
Document Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Earth's oceans are a soup of living micro-organisms known as plankton. As the foundation of the food chain for marine life, plankton are also an integral component of the global carbon cycle which regulates the planet's temperature. In this paper, we present a technique for automatic identification of plankton using a variety of features and classification methods including ensembles. The images were obtained in situ by an instrument known as the Flow Cytometer And Microscope (FlowCAM), that detects particles from a stream of water siphoned directly from the ocean. The images are of necessity of limited resolution, making their identification a rather difficult challenge. We expect that upon completion, our system will become a useful tool for marine biologists to assess the health of the world's oceans.
Publication Title
Proceedings - Seventh IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2005
Publication Date
2005
First Page
79
Last Page
86
ISBN
0769522718,9780769522715
DOI
10.1109/ACVMOT.2005.29
Repository Citation
Blaschko, Matthew B.; Holness, Gary; Mattar, Marwan A.; Lisin, Dimitri; Utgoff, Paul E.; Hanson, Allen R.; Schultz, Howard; Riseman, Edward M.; Sieracki, Michael E.; Balch, William M.; and Tupper, Ben, "Automatic in situ identification of plankton" (2005). Computer Science. 213.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_computer_sciences/213
APA Citation
Blaschko, M. B., Holness, G., Mattar, M. A., Lisin, D., Utgoff, P. E., Hanson, A. R., ... & Tupper, B. (2005, January). Automatic in situ identification of plankton. In 2005 Seventh IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION'05)-Volume 1 (Vol. 1, pp. 79-86). IEEE.