Seg the HAB: Language-Guided Geospatial Algae Bloom Reasoning and Segmentation

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Autores principales: Hsieh, Patterson, Yeh, Jerry, He, Mao-Chi, Hsieh, Wen-Han, Hsieh, Elvis
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Publicado: 2025
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author Hsieh, Patterson
Yeh, Jerry
He, Mao-Chi
Hsieh, Wen-Han
Hsieh, Elvis
author_facet Hsieh, Patterson
Yeh, Jerry
He, Mao-Chi
Hsieh, Wen-Han
Hsieh, Elvis
contents Climate change is intensifying the occurrence of harmful algal bloom (HAB), particularly cyanobacteria, which threaten aquatic ecosystems and human health through oxygen depletion, toxin release, and disruption of marine biodiversity. Traditional monitoring approaches, such as manual water sampling, remain labor-intensive and limited in spatial and temporal coverage. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) for remote sensing have shown potential for scalable AI-driven solutions, yet challenges remain in reasoning over imagery and quantifying bloom severity. In this work, we introduce ALGae Observation and Segmentation (ALGOS), a segmentation-and-reasoning system for HAB monitoring that combines remote sensing image understanding with severity estimation. Our approach integrates GeoSAM-assisted human evaluation for high-quality segmentation mask curation and fine-tunes vision language model on severity prediction using the Cyanobacteria Aggregated Manual Labels (CAML) from NASA. Experiments demonstrate that ALGOS achieves robust performance on both segmentation and severity-level estimation, paving the way toward practical and automated cyanobacterial monitoring systems.
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spellingShingle Seg the HAB: Language-Guided Geospatial Algae Bloom Reasoning and Segmentation
Hsieh, Patterson
Yeh, Jerry
He, Mao-Chi
Hsieh, Wen-Han
Hsieh, Elvis
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Climate change is intensifying the occurrence of harmful algal bloom (HAB), particularly cyanobacteria, which threaten aquatic ecosystems and human health through oxygen depletion, toxin release, and disruption of marine biodiversity. Traditional monitoring approaches, such as manual water sampling, remain labor-intensive and limited in spatial and temporal coverage. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) for remote sensing have shown potential for scalable AI-driven solutions, yet challenges remain in reasoning over imagery and quantifying bloom severity. In this work, we introduce ALGae Observation and Segmentation (ALGOS), a segmentation-and-reasoning system for HAB monitoring that combines remote sensing image understanding with severity estimation. Our approach integrates GeoSAM-assisted human evaluation for high-quality segmentation mask curation and fine-tunes vision language model on severity prediction using the Cyanobacteria Aggregated Manual Labels (CAML) from NASA. Experiments demonstrate that ALGOS achieves robust performance on both segmentation and severity-level estimation, paving the way toward practical and automated cyanobacterial monitoring systems.
title Seg the HAB: Language-Guided Geospatial Algae Bloom Reasoning and Segmentation
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18751