Close-range underwater photogrammetry for coral reef ecology: a systematic literature review

T Remmers, A Grech, C Roelfsema, S Gordon… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Close-range underwater photogrammetry, hereafter referred to as photogrammetry, is
rapidly emerging as a new standard in measuring and monitoring coral reefs due to its …

Methods and datasets on semantic segmentation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle remote sensing images: A review

J Cheng, C Deng, Y Su, Z An, Q Wang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has seen a dramatic rise in popularity for remote-
sensing image acquisition and analysis in recent years. It has brought promising results in …

TagLab: AI‐assisted annotation for the fast and accurate semantic segmentation of coral reef orthoimages

G Pavoni, M Corsini, F Ponchio, A Muntoni… - Journal of field …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Semantic segmentation is a widespread image analysis task; in some applications, it
requires such high accuracy that it still has to be done manually, taking a long time. Deep …

[HTML][HTML] Fast and accurate mapping of fine scale abundance of a VME in the deep sea with computer vision

N Piechaud, KL Howell - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
With growing anthropogenic pressure on deep-sea ecosystems, large quantities of data are
needed to understand their ecology, monitor changes over time and inform conservation …

Needs and gaps in optical underwater technologies and methods for the investigation of marine animal forest 3D-structural complexity

P Rossi, M Ponti, S Righi, C Castagnetti… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine animal forests are benthic communities dominated by sessile suspension feeders
(such as sponges, corals, and bivalves) able to generate three-dimensional (3D) …

Seeing the forest for the trees: Mapping cover and counting trees from aerial images of a mangrove forest using artificial intelligence

D Schürholz, GA Castellanos-Galindo, E Casella… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mangrove forests provide valuable ecosystem services to coastal communities across
tropical and subtropical regions. Current anthropogenic stressors threaten these ecosystems …

3D photogrammetry and deep‐learning deliver accurate estimates of epibenthic biomass

J Marlow, JE Halpin, TA Wilding - Methods in Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate biomass estimates are key to understanding a wide variety of ecological functions.
In marine systems, epibenthic biomass estimates have traditionally relied on either …

CNet: A Novel Seabed Coral Reef Image Segmentation Approach Based on Deep Learning

H Zhang, M Li, J Zhong, J Qin - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Achieving underwater coral seabed image segmentation involves dividing an image into
meaningful regions or segments, which, in this case, could represent different types of …

Digitizing the coral reef: Machine learning of underwater spectral images enables dense taxonomic mapping of benthic habitats

D Schürholz, A Chennu - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are the most biodiverse marine ecosystems, and host a wide range of taxonomic
diversity in a complex spatial community structure. Existing coral reef survey methods …

Automatic semantic segmentation of benthic habitats using images from towed underwater camera in a complex shallow water environment

H Mohamed, K Nadaoka, T Nakamura - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Underwater image segmentation is useful for benthic habitat mapping and monitoring;
however, manual annotation is time-consuming and tedious. We propose automated …