Recently, much attention has been given to image annotation due to the massive increase in
image data volume. One of the image retrieval methods which guarantees the retrieval of …

Image-based coral reef survey technologies have revolutionized the monitoring of coral
reefs by offering a cost-effective and noninvasive method for collecting data across large …

The conventional process of building Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs (KGs) heavily
relies on human domain experts to define entities and relationship types, establish …

The recognition of coral species based on underwater texture images poses a significant
difficulty for machine learning algorithms, due to the three following challenges embedded in …

In recent years, marine animal study has gained increasing research attention, which raises
significant demands for fine-grained marine animal segmentation (MAS) techniques. In …

Coral reefs are biologically diverse and structurally complex ecosystems, which have been
severally affected by human actions. Consequently, there is a need for rapid ecological …

An appropriate management of the available resources within oceans and coastal regions is
vital to guarantee their sustainable development and preservation, where water quality is a …

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 …

The development of advanced acoustic and optical imaging techniques along with
autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) has …

Across the globe, remote image data is rapidly being collected for the assessment of benthic
communities from shallow to extremely deep waters on continental slopes to the abyssal …