Presentation 2018-03-06
Sonar2image: GAN-based night vision for fish monitoring
Kento Shin, Kei Terayama, Katsunori Mizuno, Koji Tsuda,
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Abstract(in English) Fish monitoring in an aquaculture farm is indispensable for managing fish growth and health status. However, it is not realistic for humans to monitor at night with an optical camera. Although SONAR(Sound navigation and ranging) can be used at night, the quality of its white and black images is too low to use practically. In this paper, we propose a method to generate realistic images from sonar images by using conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN), a kind of deep neural network model. cGAN learns the image-to-image translation between optical and sonar images. We created an image dataset of sardines ({it Sardinops melanostictus}) consisting of a large number of sonar and optic camera image pairs simultaneously recorded by a high precision imaging sonar ARIS and an underwater camera. Our experiment showed that the proposed model successfully generated realistic images from sonar ones with high quality. Our method enables nighttime monitoring, leading to more efficient farming and labor saving.
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Keyword(in English) conditional GAN / image-to-image translation / fish farming / SONAR
Paper # IBISML2017-102
Date of Issue 2018-02-26 (IBISML)

Conference Information
Committee IBISML
Conference Date 2018/3/5(2days)
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Place (in English) Nishijin Plaza, Kyushu University
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Topics (in English) Statisitical Mathematics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, etc.
Chair Kenji Fukumizu(ISM)
Vice Chair Masashi Sugiyama(Univ. of Tokyo) / Hisashi Kashima(Kyoto Univ.)
Secretary Masashi Sugiyama(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Hisashi Kashima(Univ. of Tokyo)
Assistant Tomoharu Iwata(NTT) / Toshihiro Kamishima(AIST)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Infomation-Based Induction Sciences and Machine Learning
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Sonar2image: GAN-based night vision for fish monitoring
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) conditional GAN
Keyword(2) image-to-image translation
Keyword(3) fish farming
Keyword(4) SONAR
1st Author's Name Kento Shin
1st Author's Affiliation University of Tokyo(Univ. of Tokyo)
2nd Author's Name Kei Terayama
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Tokyo(Univ. of Tokyo)
3rd Author's Name Katsunori Mizuno
3rd Author's Affiliation University of Tokyo(Univ. of Tokyo)
4th Author's Name Koji Tsuda
4th Author's Affiliation University of Tokyo(Univ. of Tokyo)
Date 2018-03-06
Paper # IBISML2017-102
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) IBISML-475
Page pp.pp.85-89(IBISML),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2018-02-26 (IBISML)