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1.A white paper summarizing the importance of, challenges associated with, and need for automated image analysis of plankton has been recently published in the Magazine Oceanography in the 2007 June issue (Vol 20 Issue 2) (Benfield et al. 2007).
2.Arising from an earlier publication (Culverhouse et al. 2006) authored by five members of WG130, the need for a web-based shared image database was espoused. From this specification a distributed web-based database called Pleione has been created (web link). It is capable of offering images drawn from in situ and laboratory samples of plankton to scientists across the globe. Scientists identify specimens through a web interface, and hence contribute to a consensus of opinion that validates the specific or generic identification of the specimen. Validated datasets can be used for machine and human training. All members of the working group are encouraged to visit the site and participate in the classification experiments.
Phil Culverhouse and Mark Benfield are agreed to mirror this database at University of Plymouth and at LSU, which will enable experiments to be conducted in image validation with global access.

	Working Group Products to Date 1.A white paper summarizing the importance of, challenges associated with, and need for automated image analysis of plankton has been recently published in the Magazine Oceanography in the 2007 June issue (Vol 20 Issue 2) (Benfield et al. 2007). [...more]