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.


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    Title :

    Automatic In Situ Identification of Plankton




    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    236323 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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