Attachment B-EM System.pdf

This attachment to a federal solicitation requests proposals to build a groundfish image library. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) is seeking proposals to collect, process, and apply machine learning techniques to images taken aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow to support Northeast electronic monitoring programs. Proposals are due by April 15, 2022 under solicitation number 1305M221QNFFM0003. The selected offeror will work with NEFSC scientists to build an annotated image library of groundfish species, with the goal of using computer vision and machine learning to automate species identification from video collected through at-sea monitoring programs in the Northeast United States.