SC/60/BRG24. 1 PHOTO-IDENTIFICATION SOFTWARE FOR BOWHEAD WHALE IMAGES

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• Language: English
• Subjects: bowhead whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.571.1517; http://www.iwcoffice.co.uk/_documents/sci_com/SC60docs/SC-60-BRG24.pdf

A computer program has been developed for identification of individual bowhead whales in aerial photographs. The program enables the user to create a collection of images and to compare an image to the collection. The collection is ranked by the program based on similarity to the query image, facilitating identification of the individual in the image. The program has been tested by the developer (GRH) with 20 images and it appears to compute its matching functions correctly. Eleven successive versions of the program were provided to LGL Limited, who tested the program with a collection of 78 images and have provided reports on bugs in the system and feature requests to the developer. All known bugs have been fixed and many features have been added to make the program perform better. Additional modifications to the program are likely to improve matching performance and will be identified when larger numbers of images have been processed through the program.