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Coverage estimation of benthic habitat features by semantic segmentation of underwater imagery from South-eastern Baltic reefs using deep learning models

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العنوان: Coverage estimation of benthic habitat features by semantic segmentation of underwater imagery from South-eastern Baltic reefs using deep learning models
المؤلفون: Andrius Šiaulys, Evaldas Vaičiukynas, Saulė Medelytė, Kazimieras Buškus
المصدر: Oceanologia, Vol 66, Iss 2, Pp 286-298 (2024)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Oceanography
مصطلحات موضوعية: Underwater video, Epibenthos, Mosaicking, Segmentation, Computer vision, PSPNet, ResNet, Oceanography, GC1-1581
الوصف: Underwater imagery (UI) is an important and sometimes the only tool for mapping hard-bottom habitats. With the development of new camera systems, from hand-held or simple “drop-down” cameras to ROV/AUV-mounted video systems, video data collection has increased considerably. However, the processing and analysing of vast amounts of imagery can become very labour-intensive, thus making it ineffective both time-wise and financially. This task could be simplified if the processes or their intermediate steps could be done automatically. Luckily, the rise of AI applications for automatic image analysis tasks in the last decade has empowered researchers with robust and effective tools. In this study, two ways to make UI analysis more efficient were tested with eight dominant visual features of the Southeastern Baltic reefs: 1) the simplification of video processing and expert annotation efforts by skipping the video mosaicking step and reducing the number of frames analysed; 2) the application of semantic segmentation of UI using deep learning models. The results showed that the annotation of individual frames provides similar results compared to 2D mosaics; moreover, the reduction of frames by 2–3 times resulted in only minor differences from the baseline. Semantic segmentation using the PSPNet model as the deep learning architecture was extensively evaluated, applying three variants of validation. The accuracy of segmentation, as measured by the intersection-over-union, was mediocre; however, estimates of visual coverage percentages were fair: the difference between the expert annotations and model-predicted segmentation was less than 6–8%, which could be considered an encouraging result.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0078-3234
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323423000933; https://doaj.org/toc/0078-3234
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceano.2023.12.004
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/0dd90b4cf92a4239a673223d0b8d509f
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.0dd90b4cf92a4239a673223d0b8d509f
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:00783234
DOI:10.1016/j.oceano.2023.12.004