Freshwater Fish Detection Based on the Yolov8 Model

Authors

  • Xinyu Wang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62051/ijcsit.v5n3.13

Keywords:

Freshwater fish, Yolov8, Target detection, Deep learning, Water environment protection

Abstract

Fish is a class of important components of river and lake ecosystems, and the judgment of their population migration and the statistics of their number is an important task in water environment regulation. Current intelligent identification methods based on deep learning models provide efficient and accurate means. In this paper, based on the Yolov8 model, we realize the recognition of freshwater fish species under the underwater complex environment. We add the attention mechanism of random masks to the model to reduce the computational complexity. A dataset containing ten freshwater fish species is also constructed from integrating web open datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves good recognition results, and the evaluation index Precision\Recall\ mAP50\ mAP50-95 is achieved.

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Published

10-04-2025

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How to Cite

Wang, X. (2025). Freshwater Fish Detection Based on the Yolov8 Model. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology, 5(3), 138-145. https://doi.org/10.62051/ijcsit.v5n3.13