Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4544584 | Fisheries Research | 2007 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Otoliths have traditionally been used to estimate fish age. However, many factors influence changes in otolith shape, so manual classification remains a complicated task. Very recently, statistical learning techniques have been proposed for automating such a process. We propose performing automatic fish age classification using otolith images (in cases in which growth rings are not properly displayed or are unavailable), morphological and statistical feature-extraction methods and multi-class support vector machines. The results of our experiments, in which we classified cod ages from otolith images, demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
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Authors
Sergio Bermejo, Brais Monegal, Joan Cabestany,