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author Lowe, Scott C.
Misiuk, Benjamin
Xu, Isaac
Abdulazizov, Shakhboz
Baroi, Amit R.
Bastos, Alex C.
Best, Merlin
Ferrini, Vicki
Friedman, Ariell
Hart, Deborah
Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove
Ierodiaconou, Daniel
Mackin-McLaughlin, Julia
Markey, Kathryn
Menandro, Pedro S.
Monk, Jacquomo
Nemani, Shreya
O'Brien, John
Oh, Elizabeth
Reshitnyk, Luba Y.
Robert, Katleen
Roelfsema, Chris M.
Sameoto, Jessica A.
Schimel, Alexandre C. G.
Thomson, Jordan A.
Wilson, Brittany R.
Wong, Melisa C.
Brown, Craig J.
Trappenberg, Thomas
author_facet Lowe, Scott C.
Misiuk, Benjamin
Xu, Isaac
Abdulazizov, Shakhboz
Baroi, Amit R.
Bastos, Alex C.
Best, Merlin
Ferrini, Vicki
Friedman, Ariell
Hart, Deborah
Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove
Ierodiaconou, Daniel
Mackin-McLaughlin, Julia
Markey, Kathryn
Menandro, Pedro S.
Monk, Jacquomo
Nemani, Shreya
O'Brien, John
Oh, Elizabeth
Reshitnyk, Luba Y.
Robert, Katleen
Roelfsema, Chris M.
Sameoto, Jessica A.
Schimel, Alexandre C. G.
Thomson, Jordan A.
Wilson, Brittany R.
Wong, Melisa C.
Brown, Craig J.
Trappenberg, Thomas
contents Advances in underwater imaging enable collection of extensive seafloor image datasets necessary for monitoring important benthic ecosystems. The ability to collect seafloor imagery has outpaced our capacity to analyze it, hindering mobilization of this crucial environmental information. Machine learning approaches provide opportunities to increase the efficiency with which seafloor imagery is analyzed, yet large and consistent datasets to support development of such approaches are scarce. Here we present BenthicNet: a global compilation of seafloor imagery designed to support the training and evaluation of large-scale image recognition models. An initial set of over 11.4 million images was collected and curated to represent a diversity of seafloor environments using a representative subset of 1.3 million images. These are accompanied by 3.1 million annotations translated to the CATAMI scheme, which span 190,000 of the images. A large deep learning model was trained on this compilation and preliminary results suggest it has utility for automating large and small-scale image analysis tasks. The compilation and model are made openly available for reuse at https://doi.org/10.20383/103.0614.
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spellingShingle BenthicNet: A global compilation of seafloor images for deep learning applications
Lowe, Scott C.
Misiuk, Benjamin
Xu, Isaac
Abdulazizov, Shakhboz
Baroi, Amit R.
Bastos, Alex C.
Best, Merlin
Ferrini, Vicki
Friedman, Ariell
Hart, Deborah
Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove
Ierodiaconou, Daniel
Mackin-McLaughlin, Julia
Markey, Kathryn
Menandro, Pedro S.
Monk, Jacquomo
Nemani, Shreya
O'Brien, John
Oh, Elizabeth
Reshitnyk, Luba Y.
Robert, Katleen
Roelfsema, Chris M.
Sameoto, Jessica A.
Schimel, Alexandre C. G.
Thomson, Jordan A.
Wilson, Brittany R.
Wong, Melisa C.
Brown, Craig J.
Trappenberg, Thomas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Advances in underwater imaging enable collection of extensive seafloor image datasets necessary for monitoring important benthic ecosystems. The ability to collect seafloor imagery has outpaced our capacity to analyze it, hindering mobilization of this crucial environmental information. Machine learning approaches provide opportunities to increase the efficiency with which seafloor imagery is analyzed, yet large and consistent datasets to support development of such approaches are scarce. Here we present BenthicNet: a global compilation of seafloor imagery designed to support the training and evaluation of large-scale image recognition models. An initial set of over 11.4 million images was collected and curated to represent a diversity of seafloor environments using a representative subset of 1.3 million images. These are accompanied by 3.1 million annotations translated to the CATAMI scheme, which span 190,000 of the images. A large deep learning model was trained on this compilation and preliminary results suggest it has utility for automating large and small-scale image analysis tasks. The compilation and model are made openly available for reuse at https://doi.org/10.20383/103.0614.
title BenthicNet: A global compilation of seafloor images for deep learning applications
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05241