One of my big weekend projects (for longer than I care to think) has been trying to create a pipeline for identifying individual whalesharks from photos. The project had kind of grown moribund as I repeatedly failed to get any decent level of recognition despite using what I thought was …

OMG I can't believe I missed this competition. It's exactly in line with my whaleshark identification project.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/humpback-whale-identification

Here's a baby humpback whale that swam up to the boat a few weeks ago. In the second photo you can see it popped it's head up …