A dual camera system for counting and sizing Northern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus; Linnaeus, 1758) stock, during transfer to aquaculture cages, with a semi automatic Artificial Neural Network tool

Aquaculture

Volumn 291, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 161-167

  Costa, Corrado ^a   Scardi, Michele ^a   Vitalini, Valerio ^a   Cataudella, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Dual cameras; Fish size; Neural network; Thunnus thynnus; Underwater video monitoring

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; PERCIFORM; PIXEL; SOFTWARE; UNDERWATER CAMERA;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS THYNNUS;

EID: 67349171901     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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