A Study on the Automatic Counting Method of Number of Chlorella

  • Ota, Makoto (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering , Fac. Of Engineering, Tottori University) ;
  • Sumi, Yasuaki (Tottori SANYO Electric Co. Ltd.) ;
  • Yabuki, Noboru (Dept. of Electrical and computer Engineering Tsuyama National College of Technology) ;
  • Obote, Shigeki (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Fac. of Engineering, Tottori University) ;
  • Matsuda, Yoshitaka (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Fac. Of Engineering, Tottori University) ;
  • Fukui, Yutaka (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Fac. Of Engineering, Tottori University)
  • Published : 2000.07.01

Abstract

Marine chlorella (Nannochloropsis oculata) is cultivated at the fish farming association of experimental fishery laboratory. In the culture of the chlorella, it is necessary to count the number of chlorella in order to understand the condition of increase. For that purpose, we develop automatic chlorella counter using the image processing and the neural network. Its effectiveness is confirmed through the experiment.

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