The recent advancement in data science coupled with the revolution in digital and satellite
technology has improved the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the …

The ocean is an important ecosystem, and aquatic animals play an important role in the
biological world, especially in aquaculture. How to accurately and intelligently recognise …

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn new categories with a few visual samples per class.
Few-shot class representations are often biased due to data scarcity. To mitigate this issue …

Satellites allow large‐scale surveys to be conducted in short time periods with repeat
surveys possible at intervals of< 24 h. Very‐high‐resolution satellite imagery has been …

The habitats of marine life, characteristics of species, and the diverse mix of maritime
industries around these habitats are of interest to many researchers, authorities, and …

The sperm whale lives in most deep ice-free waters of the globe. It was targeted during two
periods of whaling peaking in the 1840's and 1960's. Using a habitat suitability model, we …

Many ecologists have lamented the demise of natural history and have attributed this
decline to a misguided view that natural history is outdated and unscientific. Although there …

This work presented a literature review on animal species and individual identification tools,
as well as animal monitoring capabilities. We gathered the literature to cover different …

Two-stage object detectors generate object proposals and classify them to detect objects in
images. These proposals often do not perfectly contain the objects but overlap with them in …

Monitoring marine mammals is of broad interest to governments and individuals around the
globe. Very high-resolution (VHR) satellites hold the promise of reaching remote and …