Smart Headset, Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Efficient Prawn Farm Management

Frequent data collection on the size of individual animals can provide important information for evaluating growth rates and size distributions, which provide insights into productivity, conditions of the pond and potential yield. This information can help the farm manager predict and avoid unwanted situations. Prawn farm technicians pull up feed trays as part of their daily workflow to understand feed consumption and adjust feed rates. The tray typically captures a good number of prawns because feed is added to the tray to attract the prawns. We aim to take advantage of this practice as this process is more frequent (once/twice daily) than the casting of a net (once every week or fortnight).