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Right Whale Photo Id

Right Whale Photo Id. Project Planning 09/28/2011. Identification of North Atlantic Right Whales Part I. Each individual id’d by callosity pattern on the top of the head Callosity are made of Cyamids , a.k.a. whale lice . Identification of North Atlantic Right Whales Part II.

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Right Whale Photo Id

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  1. Right Whale Photo Id Project Planning 09/28/2011

  2. Identification of North Atlantic Right Whales Part I • Each individualid’d by callositypattern on the top of the head • Callosity are made of Cyamids, a.k.a. whale lice

  3. Identification of North Atlantic Right Whales Part II • At two years of age the callosity pattern stabilizes enough for identification • Scaring also used for identification

  4. Data Used for Modeling • Life expectancy • Natural life expectancy unknown • practical life age before accidental death 50 years(?) • Closest living relative Bow Head Whales • some data suggests 200 years • Timing reproductive cycles • data has been variable between 2-5 years for reproductively active individuals • Determining home ranges of individuals • The range of North Atlantic Right Whales is from Nova Scotia to north Florida • One juvenile found off the cost of Europe • Social interactions between individuals • other species are show to be un-speciatedsub-groups • Do not inter breed • Sometimes called cultures • Orcas (Killer Whales) • Bottlenose dolphins

  5. Threats to Right Whalesthe Urban Whale • Ship strikes • Feed and breed in major commercial cargo lanes • Fishing nets and floating lobster lines • Slow moving and skim feeding hooks in mouth, on callosity, and around fins • Toxins • Most females never give birth • Possibly caused by toxins • Food scarcity • Limited copepod supply • Inhibits pregnant females coming to term • Previous concern almost now females gave birth • Last few years record calf count

  6. Problem • Thousands of photographs taken every year • A photograph commonly has multiple whales • Each whale matched against online catalog • Each photograph is usually of poor quality • Bad exposure • Poor animal positioning positioning • Variation in an animal’s scares • Automation of matching has not worked

  7. Sample Photos Used for IdentificationBest available photos of RW 1012

  8. Concept • Provide a mechanism for the crowd to help researchers id North Atlantic Right Whales • Researchers upload pictures to website • Uploaded pictures shown to crowd for id • Website references pictures in online catalog to give side-by-side view • Crowd proposed matches reported to Researcher

  9. Proposed Implementation • Service hosted on GoogleAppengine • Written in Java & GWT • Backend written in Guice dependency injection framework • Database using Google Big Table database

  10. Development Environment • Eclipse Helios or Indigo IDE • Google Eclipse plug-in f • googleappengine • GWT support • Subversive Eclipse plug-in • Subversion support • Google Code • Subversion source control • Wiki for development instructions • Teamcity • Automatic and scheduled unit testing • Automatic and scheduled regression testing

  11. Current issues • Appengine • How to store uploaded pictures • researcher must agree to terms of use for each picture • Picture must securely stored • Picture must be removed after match • Teamcity • No native support for Google Eclipse Plugin • Custom write Ant build script to duplicate build

  12. Questions?

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