Microbes as marine habitat formers and ecosystem engineers

R Danovaro, LA Levin, G Fanelli, L Scenna… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite their small individual size, marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes can form
large 3D structures and complex habitats. These habitats contribute to seafloor …

Is one annotation enough?-a data-centric image classification benchmark for noisy and ambiguous label estimation

L Schmarje, V Grossmann, C Zelenka… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
High-quality data is necessary for modern machine learning. However, the acquisition of
such data is difficult due to noisy and ambiguous annotations of humans. The aggregation of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing plume impacts caused by polymetallic nodule mining vehicles

PPE Weaver, J Aguzzi, RE Boschen-Rose, A Colaço… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep-sea mining may be just a few years away and yet society is struggling to assess the
positive aspects, such as increasing the supply of metals for battery production to fuel the …

Url: A representation learning benchmark for transferable uncertainty estimates

M Kirchhof, B Mucsányi, SJ Oh… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Representation learning has significantly driven the field to develop pretrained
models that can act as a valuable starting point when transferring to new datasets. With the …

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 …

Making marine image data FAIR

T Schoening, JM Durden, C Faber, J Felden, K Heger… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
Underwater images are used to explore and monitor ocean habitats, generating huge
datasets with unusual data characteristics that preclude traditional data management …

[HTML][HTML] Improving coral monitoring by reducing variability and bias in cover estimates from seabed images

EJ Curtis, JM Durden, BJ Bett, VAI Huvenne… - Progress in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Seabed cover of organisms is an established metric for assessing the status of many
vulnerable marine ecosystems. When deriving cover estimates from seafloor imagery, a …

Deepdive: Leveraging Pre-trained Deep Learning for Deep-Sea ROV Biota Identification in the Great Barrier Reef

R Deo, CM John, C Zhang, K Whitton, T Salles… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding and preserving the deep sea ecosystems is paramount for marine
conservation efforts. Automated object (deep-sea biota) classification can enable the …

Deep learning based deep-sea automatic image enhancement and animal species classification

V Lopez-Vazquez, JM Lopez-Guede… - Journal of Big Data, 2023 - Springer
The automatic classification of marine species based on images is a challenging task for
which multiple solutions have been increasingly provided in the past two decades. Oceans …

Gear-induced concept drift in marine images and its effect on deep learning classification

D Langenkämper, R Van Kevelaer, A Purser… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
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 …