Underwater scene is highly unstructured, full of various noise interferences. Moreover, GPS
information is not available in the underwater environment, which thus brings huge …

Global climate change and other anthropogenic stressors have heightened the need to
rapidly characterize ecological changes in marine benthic communities across large scales …

This paper presents a scheme for feature extraction that can be applied for classification of
corals in submarine coral reef images. In coral reef image classification, texture features are …

The increasing demand for marine monitoring calls for robust automated systems to support
researchers in gathering information from marine ecosystems. This includes computer vision …

This paper presents an automated approach to recovering the true color of objects on the
seafloor in images collected from multiple perspectives by an autonomous underwater …

Visual 3D reconstruction techniques provide rich ecological and habitat structural
information from underwater imagery. However, an unaided swimmer or diver struggles to …

Across the globe, remote image data is rapidly being collected for the assessment of benthic
communities from shallow to extremely deep waters on continental slopes to the abyssal …

The development of advanced acoustic and optical imaging techniques along with
autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) has …

We present an approach for navigating in unknown environments while, simultaneously,
gathering information for inspecting underwater structures using an autonomous underwater …

In marine research, image data sets from the same area but collected at different times allow
seafloor fauna communities to be monitored over time. However, ongoing technological …