Beluga whale detection in the Cumberland Sound Bay using convolutional neural networks

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Peter Q. Lee, Keerthijan Radhakrishnan, David A. Clausi, K. Andrea Scott, Linlin Xu, Marianne Marcoux
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Technology; T; Canada; Cumberland Sound; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2021.1901221; https://doaj.org/article/23c0790ce2b64c3da19d2492a3c5de5d

The Cumberland Sound Beluga is a threatened population of belugas and the assessment of the population is done by a manual review of aerial surveys. The time-consuming and labor-intensive nature of this job motivates the need for a computer automated process to monitor beluga populations. In this pa...