{"id":3698,"date":"2025-10-14T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:40:14","slug":"the-research-group-led-by-dr-ozaki-received-the-best-presentation-award-at-the-12th-iiae-international-conference-on-intelligent-systems-and-image-processing-2025-for-the-presentation-titled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/news\/the-research-group-led-by-dr-ozaki-received-the-best-presentation-award-at-the-12th-iiae-international-conference-on-intelligent-systems-and-image-processing-2025-for-the-presentation-titled\/","title":{"rendered":"The research group led by Dr. Ozaki received the Best Presentation Award at the 12th IIAE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Image Processing 2025 for the presentation titled \u201cVisual Classification of Aquaculture Pond Bottom Environments via CNN and Autonomous Boat Survey.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3698\" class=\"elementor elementor-3698\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-282e00b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"282e00b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a87c1db e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a87c1db\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5393c24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5393c24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>This study proposed a novel approach for autonomously monitoring and analyzing pond bottom environments in kuruma shrimp aquaculture. An autonomous boat equipped with an underwater camera was developed to capture bottom footage, and the collected images were analyzed using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to automatically classify environmental conditions such as clean gravel, residual feed, white fungal growth, and sludge-like sediment. In addition, a blind annotation approach was adopted to objectively verify and evaluate the validity of the CNN classification results. 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