Improving Pantanal fish species recognition through taxonomic ranks in convolutional neural networks

AA dos Santos, WN Gonçalves - Ecological Informatics, 2019 - Elsevier
Fish species recognition is an important task to preserve ecosystems, feed humans, and
tourism. In particular, the Pantanal is a wetland region that harbors hundreds of species and
is considered one of the most important ecosystems in the world. In this paper, we present a
new method based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for Pantanal fish species
recognition. A new CNN composed of three branches that classify the fish species, family
and order is proposed with the aim of improving the recognition of species with similar …