Summer school

Project name

Mobile app for fish identification

Leader

Ing. Petr Císař, Ph.D.

Description of the activities of the project

• Fish identification from the images is efficient approach how to substitute invasive fish tagging. It also opens new possibilities of fish identification where it was impossible. One of these possibilities is the individual identification of the fish in the river. The researchers need to know if the same fish individual stay at specific part of the river of migrate around. The sport fishermans would like to understand if they cought the same trophy fish and how it growth. Our laboratory developed and approach of fish individual identification based on the fish appearance which work very well. Now we need to create a tool for the field identification the people could use.
• The objective of the project is to implement mobile application where the user can take a short video of the fish, send it to the server, the server will do the individual identification and send back the fish ID.
• The app will be tested under the real conditions with several fish. The part of the project will be also the development of the procedure to take the best video record for identification.
• The students will learn about the fish identification from images, how to implement mobile app and how to plan and perform experiments with fish.
• The outcome of the project will be the mobile app and the recording procedure.

Students

• Number of students - 1-2
• high school students students - NO
• university students - YES
• Prepositions (what should the students know): basics of programing