I hope this blog would catch the attention of the people who might be able to help me in acquiring images of Philippines fishes. I am Jenneth Jusay, a Senior student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, taking up BS Computer Science. As a graduating student, I need to propose a Special Problem topic and I am planning to work on the field of Image Processing. Although there are already existing researches on fish classification based on color and geometry, I still want to work in this topic and explore other techniques in image processing that will help in classifying Philippines fishes. Honestly... I haven't really figured out the techniques to be used in my research because it will depend on the input images. I also need to study how fishes are being classified, I only know how to eat them :D More than 100 images is sufficient enough in order for me to conduct this study. I know that the members of this website are professionals or experts in Marine Biology but I do hope that you guys would spend some time helping a student like me :) Thank you in advance! :D

You can contact me at jenneth0510@gmail.com

I recently posted a blog on needing some Philippine fish images for my image processing reseach.

 http://www.unepscs.org/Mamblog_Section/Blog/Need_for_Images_of_Philippine_Fishes.html

I have already found some samples I can work on (but still need more) so right now the next step is to identify the steps in how to clasify the fishes based on external features (shape, size, color, etc...).

I want to ask if anyone out there could give an advice on a begginer such as myself on some prerequisite topic I should consider before jumping into the topic of clasifying and identifying fishes?