The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

M Canals, CK Pham, M Bergmann… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The seafloor covers some 70% of the Earth's surface and has been recognised as a major
sink for marine litter. Still, litter on the seafloor is the least investigated fraction of marine …

A systematic review of remotely operated vehicle surveys for visually assessing fish assemblages

D Sward, J Monk, N Barrett - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic activities and greater demands for marine natural resources has led to
increases in the spatial extent and duration of pressures on marine ecosystems. Remotely …

Perspectives in visual imaging for marine biology and ecology: from acquisition to understanding

JM Durden, T Schoening, F Althaus… - … and Marine Biology, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
JENS GREINERT3, NANCY JACOBSEN STOUT8, DANIEL OB JONES1, ANNE JORDT3,
JEFFREY W. KAELI9, KEVIN KÖSER3, LINDA A. KUHNZ8, DHUGAL LINDSAY10, KIRSTY …

Rethinking megafauna

M Moleon, JA Sanchez-Zapata… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Concern for megafauna is increasing among scientists and non-scientists. Many studies
have emphasized that megafauna play prominent ecological roles and provide important …

Current and future trends in marine image annotation software

JN Gomes-Pereira, V Auger, K Beisiegel… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Given the need to describe, analyze and index large quantities of marine imagery data for
exploration and monitoring activities, a range of specialized image annotation tools have …

An assessment of fish and marine growth associated with an oil and gas platform jacket using an augmented remotely operated vehicle

DL McLean, MD Taylor, AG Ospina… - Continental Shelf …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scientists, industry and regulators are seeking to understand the influence of oil and gas
infrastructure in our oceans to mitigate its impacts and maximise environmental benefits …

Automated measurements of fish within a trawl using stereo images from a Camera-Trawl device (CamTrawl)

K Williams, N Lauffenburger, MC Chuang… - Methods in …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present a method to automatically measure fish from images taken using a stereo-
camera system installed in a large trawl (CamTrawl). Different visibility and fish density …

A review of megafauna diversity and abundance in an exploration area for polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (North East …

K Uhlenkott, K Meyn, A Vink, P Martínez Arbizu - Marine Biodiversity, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) is an abyssal region in the north-east
Pacific that is currently being explored for metal-rich polymetallic nodules, but also harbors a …

Using deep-sea images to examine ecosystem services associated with methane seeps

JT Le, PR Girguis, LA Levin - Marine Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep-sea images are routinely collected during at-sea expeditions and represent a
repository of under-utilized knowledge. We leveraged dive videos collected by the remotely …

Review of underwater machine vision technology and its applications

Q Xi, T Rauschenbach… - Marine Technology Society …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
The characteristics of the underwater environment often present difficult challenges for
machine vision technology. The images of inspected targets are distorted, blurred, and …