St. Mary’s River Fish Identifier Computer Vision Project

The purpose of this model is to assist people in the St. Mary’s County/St. Mary’s River area who enjoy fishing. It can assist them by identifying the fish they catch. This model is going to be used to classify 3 species of fish that are common in the St. Mary’s River: Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides), Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and White Perch (Morone americana). These people may be interested in knowing the species of fish that they catch and whether or not they are permitted to keep the fish they catch, which the model can help with by identifying the fish species. There may be conservationists who are concerned with the population of species of fish in the area and want to estimate how many of a certain species of fish are present in an area. Fisheries in general might be interested in knowing more about the population, population density, and habitat of these fish species.

This model is an Object Detection Model built in Roboflow. There are three different classes in the model representing the three species of fish that are common in the St. Mary’s River: Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides), Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and White Perch (Morone americana). These species of fish can be identified using the model. Each model was trained with approximately 50 annotations.The datasets for each class are broken up into the training set, the validation set, and the testing set. For the Largemouth Bass dataset, the training set had 36 annotations, the validation set had 10 annotations, and the testing set had 5 annotations. For the Bluegill dataset, the training set had 35 annotations, the validation set had 10 annotations, and the testing set had 5 annotations. For the White Perch dataset, the training set had 35 annotations, the validation set had 10 annotations, and the testing set had 5 annotations. The links to the datasets are listed below. This model was created for a class assignment in AI and Natural History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.