University of Virginia: Researchers Angling To Make ‘Fish-ial’ Recognition Software a Reality

University of Virginia: Researchers Angling To Make ‘Fish-ial’ Recognition Software a Reality. “Facial recognition can identify people in a crowd. Can the same be done for fish in a river with ‘fish-ial’ recognition software? University of Virginia data scientist Sheng Li is determined to find out. In collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, which has provided a five-year grant, Li and his two research assistants are training a deep-learning algorithm to recognize nuances in individual fishes’ faces and scale patterns.”