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Adaptive identity-regularized generative adversarial networks with species-specific loss functions for enhanced fish
Hanaa Salem Marie1, Moatasem M Draz2, Waleed Abd Elkhalik3
1Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa, 35712, Egypt. hana.salem@deltauniv.edu.eg.
Scientific Reports
|October 28, 2025
Summary
This study introduces a novel Generative Adversarial Network for fish classification, enhancing rare species identification. The biologically-informed approach significantly improves classification and segmentation accuracy using synthetic data.
Area of Science:
- Marine Biology
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
Background:
- Traditional fish classification faces challenges with limited and imbalanced datasets, especially for rare or morphologically complex species.
- Existing data augmentation methods struggle to preserve crucial species-specific features and biological authenticity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a novel Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture for generating high-quality synthetic fish data.
- To improve the accuracy and robustness of fish classification and segmentation systems, particularly for challenging species.
- To enhance dataset diversity and biological plausibility in marine species datasets.
Main Methods:
- Proposed a GAN architecture integrating adaptive identity blocks to preserve species-specific features during synthetic data generation.
- Developed species-specific loss functions incorporating morphological constraints and taxonomic relationships for biological plausibility.
- Evaluated the method on a dataset of 9000 images across nine fish species, comparing against baseline and traditional augmentation techniques.
Main Results:
- Achieved 95.1% classification accuracy, a 9.7% improvement over baseline methods.
- Improved segmentation performance with 89.6% mean Intersection over Union (IoU), a 12.3% increase over baselines.
- Expert evaluation confirmed high quality (88.7%) and biological validation (87.4%) of generated data, especially for complex species.
Conclusions:
- The biologically-informed GAN approach effectively generates high-quality synthetic fish data, significantly boosting classification and segmentation performance.
- The method demonstrates superior results for morphologically complex species, addressing a key limitation in current systems.
- The findings support the broader applicability of this approach for enhancing marine species datasets and AI model training.
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