How many fish in a tank? Constructing an automated fish counting system by using PTV analysis

S. Abe; T. Takagi; K. Takehara; N. Kimura; T. Hiraishi; K. Komeyama; S. Torisawa; S. Asaumi

doi:10.1117/12.2270627

20 February 2017 How many fish in a tank? Constructing an automated fish counting system by using PTV analysis

S. Abe, T. Takagi, K. Takehara, N. Kimura, T. Hiraishi, K. Komeyama, S. Torisawa, S. Asaumi

Proceedings Volume 10328, Selected Papers from the 31st International Congress on High-Speed Imaging and Photonics; 103281T (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2270627
Event: 31st International Congress on High-Speed Imaging and Photonics, 2016, Osaka, Japan

Abstract

Because escape from a net cage and mortality are constant problems in fish farming, health control and management of facilities are important in aquaculture. In particular, the development of an accurate fish counting system has been strongly desired for the Pacific Bluefin tuna farming industry owing to the high market value of these fish. The current fish counting method, which involves human counting, results in poor accuracy; moreover, the method is cumbersome because the aquaculture net cage is so large that fish can only be counted when they move to another net cage. Therefore, we have developed an automated fish counting system by applying particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) analysis to a shoal of swimming fish inside a net cage. In essence, we treated the swimming fish as tracer particles and estimated the number of fish by analyzing the corresponding motion vectors. The proposed fish counting system comprises two main components: image processing and motion analysis, where the image-processing component abstracts the foreground and the motion analysis component traces the individual’s motion. In this study, we developed a Region Extraction and Centroid Computation (RECC) method and a Kalman filter and Chi-square (KC) test for the two main components. To evaluate the efficiency of our method, we constructed a closed system, placed an underwater video camera with a spherical curved lens at the bottom of the tank, and recorded a 360° view of a swimming school of Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes). Our study showed that almost all fish could be abstracted by the RECC method and the motion vectors could be calculated by the KC test. The recognition rate was approximately 90% when more than 180 individuals were observed within the frame of the video camera. These results suggest that the presented method has potential application as a fish counting system for industrial aquaculture.

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S. Abe, T. Takagi, K. Takehara, N. Kimura, T. Hiraishi, K. Komeyama, S. Torisawa, and S. Asaumi "How many fish in a tank? Constructing an automated fish counting system by using PTV analysis", Proc. SPIE 10328, Selected Papers from the 31st International Congress on High-Speed Imaging and Photonics, 103281T (20 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2270627

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