The Lightweight Count System of Intensive Jellyfish Based on Deep Learning

Abstract

The number of jellyfish outbreaks is on the rise around the world, and they have been considered a serious ecological disaster. As part of the emergency response plan for jellyfish disasters, in-situ detection research that can distinguish jellyfish species and quantities is urgently required to support accurate data collection. As a typical fully supervised regression task, counting is usually regarded as requiring a large number of labeled datasets in conventional counting methods. To treat counting as a few-shot regression task that is semi-supervised, a novel adaptation strategy based on deep learning is presented in this paper. The method combines the test image with several example objects from the test image and takes advantage of the strong similarities present in the test image and the example objects contained in the image. Effective counting can be achieved without training the target object. Prediction of the density map of the test image’s objects of interest is the objective of the test. This method has been shown to be more robust than the method of detection first and counting later, and its accuracy can exceed 95%.