Optical Recognition of Anglers

The Freshwater Fisheries Society of British Columbia is dedicated to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable exploitation of British Columbia’s freshwater fish resources. They have set up cameras to label fishing levels in BC lakes, but it is too time-consuming to count the number of fishers in all these images. We intend to use recent advances in computer vision and machine learning, in the form of “deep learning” methods, to build a system to automatically assess the fishing levels in all BC lakes. The intern will work on developing a system that automatically reports the fishing levels in all BC lakes, and will also focus on advancing research into deep learning by focusing on more effective training strategies.

Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Schmidt

Student:

Partner:

Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Aquaculture and Fishing; Natural Resources; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: