Fraud, misidentification, and adulteration of food, whether unintentional or purposeful, are a worldwide and growing concern. Aquaculture and fisheries are recognized as one of the sectors most vulnerable to food fraud. Besides, a series of risks related to health and distrust between consumer and popular market that this sector develop an effective solution for fraud control. Species identification is an essential aspect to expose commercial fraud. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most powerful tools for image recognition and classification tasks. Thus, the objective of this study is to propose a model of recognition of fish species based on CNNs. The results obtained show an algorithm with an accuracy of 86%, providing an effective solution to prevent fish fraud.
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