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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2020
National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, TW;
Ing-Jer Huang, Kaohsiung, TW;
NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, Kaohsiung, TW;
Abstract
A system and a method for counting aquatic creatures are provided. The system includes an image capture device and a computer system configured to perform the method. The method includes: using the image capture device to capture images of a flow channel; defining a scan line in the images; performing a binarization process on pixels of the scan line in each of the images; determining aquatic creature range data according to each of the binarized pixel data sets; determining aquatic creature range data sets according to the binarized pixel data sets; determining identification and direction information of aquatic creature corresponding to each of the aquatic creature range data sets according to the aquatic creature range data sets; and determining a number of aquatic creatures passing through the scan line according to the identification and direction information of aquatic creature corresponding to each of the aquatic creature range data sets.