Real-time Fish Detection in Trawl Nets

This work presents advances towards the development of the Deep Vision system, consisting of a stereo camera setup attached to a trawl, which will make it possible to identify and measure the fish passing through without bringing them aboard the boat. This identification and measuring task requires a preprocessing in which the specimens should be segmented from the image background. Several lighting artifacts such as non-uniform illumination, shadows and reflections are some of the challenges to be addressed during the segmentation procedure. This paper describes the segmentation pipeline used to segment the fish from the background in an efficient and robust way.