space sharks
Sep. 23rd, 2013 07:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomFrom the latest e-newsletter of the Annals of Improbable Research comes something that might give ideas to the SyFy Channel:
"An Astronomical Pattern-Matching Algorithm for Computer-Aided Identification of Whale Sharks Rhincodon typus," Z. Arzoumanian, J. Holmberg and B. Norman, Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 42, no. 6, December 2005, Page 999-1011. <http://goo.gl/hwuvdw> (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) The authors explain:
"We describe a novel technique for identifying individual whale sharks Rhincodon typus through numerical pattern matching of their natural surface 'spot' colourations.... We have automated this process by adapting a computer algorithm originally developed in astronomy for the comparison of star patterns in images of the night sky."
"An Astronomical Pattern-Matching Algorithm for Computer-Aided Identification of Whale Sharks Rhincodon typus," Z. Arzoumanian, J. Holmberg and B. Norman, Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 42, no. 6, December 2005, Page 999-1011. <http://goo.gl/hwuvdw> (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) The authors explain:
"We describe a novel technique for identifying individual whale sharks Rhincodon typus through numerical pattern matching of their natural surface 'spot' colourations.... We have automated this process by adapting a computer algorithm originally developed in astronomy for the comparison of star patterns in images of the night sky."
