Understanding the effects of scale is essential to the understanding of natural ecosystems,
particularly in marine environments where sampling is more limited and sporadic than in …

Image mosaicing is an effective means of constructing a single seamless image by aligning
multiple partially overlapped images. Over the years, the research attention on mosaicing …

The extent and speed of marine environmental map** is increasing quickly with
technological advances, particularly with optical imaging from autonomous underwater …

Visual systems are receiving increasing attention in underwater applications. While the
photogrammetric and computer vision literature so far has largely targeted shallow water …

This study presents the redesign of an existing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with
limited maneuverability, transforming it into a platform optimized for autonomous, near …

We present an approach for navigating in unknown environments while, simultaneously,
gathering information for inspecting underwater structures using an autonomous underwater …

Underwater activities, such as surveying or interventions, carried out by autonomous robots,
can benefit greatly from using a vision system. Optics based systems provide information at …

Underwater photogrammetry and in particular systematic visual surveys of the deep sea are
by far less developed than similar techniques on land or in space. The main challenges are …

In this paper, a hovering-type autonomous underwater vehicle called Cyclops is introduced.
Because of the symmetric body structure and thruster configuration of Cyclops, it is specially …

This paper describes the use of a research-driven, highly reconfigurable autonomous
underwater vehicle for surveying the site of the historical shipwreck of La Lune. This wreck …