Pelagic species identification by using a PNN neural network and echo-sounder data

Ignazio Fontana*, Giovanni Giacalone, Angelo Bonanno, Salvatore Mazzola, Gualtiero Basilone, Simona Genovese, Salvatore Aronica, Solon Pissis, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Ritu Kundu, Antonino Fiannaca, Alessio Langiu, Giosue’ Lo Bosco, Massimo La Rosa, Riccardo Rizzo

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Abstract

For several years, a group of CNR researchers conducted acoustic surveys in the Sicily Channel to estimate the biomass of small pelagic species, their geographical distribution and their variations over time. The instrument used to carry out these surveys is the scientific echo-sounder, set for different frequencies. The processing of the back scattered signals in the volume of water under investigation determines the abundance of the species. These data are then correlated with the biological data of experimental catches, to attribute the composition of the various fish schools investigated. Of course, the recognition of the fish schools helps to produce very good results, that is very close to the truth about the abundances associated with the various species. In this work, only the acoustic traces of biological monospecific catches, exclusively of two species of pelagic fish. The ecograms where pre-processed using various software tools [1, 2]. For this work, the potential fish schools are detected and isolated using the SHAPES algorithm in Echoview. At the end of the pre-processing phase, the signals are labelled using the two species of pelagic fish: Engraulis encrasicolus and Sardina pilchardus. These labelled signals were used to train a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) [3].

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2017 - 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages454-455
Number of pages2
Volume10613 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783319685991
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 11 Sept 2017
Event26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2017 - Alghero, Italy
Duration: 11 Sept 201714 Sept 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10613 LNCS
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2017
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityAlghero
Period11/09/201714/09/2017

Keywords

  • Classification
  • Pelagic species identification
  • Probabilistic neural networks

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