Underwater scene is highly unstructured, full of various noise interferences. Moreover, GPS
information is not available in the underwater environment, which thus brings huge …

Advances in acoustic technology and instrumentation now make it possible to explore
marine resources. As a significant component of ocean exploration, underwater acoustic …

The scientific and technological revolution of the Internet of Things has begun in the area of
oceanography. Historically, humans have observed the ocean from an external viewpoint in …

A wide range of human–robot collaborative applications in diverse domains, such as
manufacturing, health care, the entertainment industry, and social interactions, require an …

As technology advances, the places we have been able to explore have drastically
increased. However, the advancements in the underwater realm have staggered behind …

In this paper, we present a number of robust methodologies for an underwater robot to
visually detect, follow, and interact with a diver for collaborative task execution. We design …

The ocean is a vast three-dimensional space that is poorly explored and understood, and
harbors unobserved life and processes that are vital to ecosystem function. To fully …

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) docking technique attracts attention which leverages
the long-term, on-station vehicle launch and recovery for the underwater missions. In this …

Target tracking is a process that provides information about targets in a specific area and is
one of the key issues affecting the safety of any vehicle navigating in water. The main sensor …

Deep-sea organism automatic tracking has rarely been studied because of a lack of training
data. However, it is extremely important for underwater robots to recognize and to predict the …