FCFormer: fish density estimation and counting in recirculating aquaculture system

Kaijie Zhu,Xinting Yang, Caiwei Yang, Tingting Fu, Pingchuan Ma, Weichen Hu

FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE(2024)

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In intelligent feeding recirculating aquaculture system, accurately estimating fish population and density is pivotal for management practices and survival rate assessments. However, challenges arise due to mutual occlusion among fish, rapid movement, and complex breeding environments. Traditional object detection methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) often fall short in fully addressing the detection demands for fish schools, especially for distant and small targets. In this regard, we introduce a detection framework dubbed FCFormer (Fish Count Transformer). Specifically, the Twins-SVT backbone network is employed first to extract global features of fish schools. To further enhance feature extraction, especially in the fusion of features at different levels, a Bi-FPN aggregation network model with a CAM Count module is incorporated (BiCC). The CAM module aids in focusing more on critical region features, thus rendering feature fusion more cohesive and effective. Furthermore, to precisely predict density maps and elevate the accuracy of fish counting, we devised an adaptive feature fusion regression head: CRMHead. This approach not only optimizes the feature fusion process but also ensures superior counting precision. Experimental results shown that the proposed FCFormer network achieves an accuracy of 97.06%, with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 6.37 and a root mean square error (MSE) of 8.69. Compared to the Twins transformer, there's a 2.02% improvement, outperforming other transformer-based architectures like CCTrans and DM_Count. The presented FCFormer algorithm can be effectively applied to fish density detection in intelligent feeding recirculating aquaculture system, offering valuable input for the development of intelligent breeding management systems.
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recirculating aquaculture systems,density estimation,fish counting,transformer,deep learning
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