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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2008, Article ID 628585, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2008/628585 Research Article Intelligent Fish Freshness Assessment Hamid Gholam Hosseini,1 Dehan Luo,2 Guanggui Xu,2 Hongxiu Liu,2 and Deena Benjamin1 1 School of Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Private Bag 92006, 1142 Auckland, New Zealand 2 School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China Correspondence should be addressed to Hamid Gholam Hosseini, hgholamh@aut.ac.nz Received 13 February 2008; Accepted 18 March 2008 Recommended by Subhas Mukhopadhyay Fish species identification and automated fish freshness assessment play important roles in fishery industry applications. This paper describes a method based on support vector machines (SVMs) to improve the performance of fish identification systems. The result is used for the assessment of fish freshness using artificial neural network (ANN). Identification of the fish species involves processing of the images of fish. The most efficient features were extracted and combined with the down-sampled version of the images to create a 1D input vector. Max-Win algorithm applied to the SVM-based classifiers has enhanced the reliability of sorting to 96.46%. The realisation of Cyranose 320 Electronic nose (E-nose), in order to evaluate the fish freshness in real-time, is experimented. Intelligent processing of the sensor patterns involves the use of a dedicated ANN for each species under study. The best estimation of freshness was provided by the most sensitive sensors. Data was collected from four selected species of fishes over a period of ten days. It was concluded that the performance can be increased using individual trained ANN for each specie. The proposed system has been succe