Enhancing the scientific value of industry remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in our oceans

DL McLean, MJG Parsons, AR Gates… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are used extensively by the offshore oil and gas and
renewables industries for inspection, maintenance, and repair of their infrastructure. With …

Marine biodiversity discovery: the metrics of new species descriptions

P Bouchet, W Decock, B Lonneville… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Based on the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), there are currently c. 242,000
known valid marine species living in the world's oceans and marine biota continue to be …

Integrating diel vertical migrations of bioluminescent deep scattering layers into monitoring programs

D Chatzievangelou, N Bahamon, S Martini… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The deep sea (ie,> 200 m depth) is a highly dynamic environment where benthic
ecosystems are functionally and ecologically connected with the overlying water column and …

Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in marine animals: a species-level inventory

JM Claes, SHD Haddock, C Coubris, J Mallefet - Life, 2024 - mdpi.com
Bioluminescence is the production of visible light by an organism. This phenomenon is
particularly widespread in marine animals, especially in the deep sea. While the …

FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean

K Katija, E Orenstein, B Schlining, L Lundsten… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The ocean is experiencing unprecedented rapid change, and visually monitoring marine
biota at the spatiotemporal scales needed for responsible stewardship is a formidable task …

Deep learning based deep-sea automatic image enhancement and animal species classification

V Lopez-Vazquez, JM Lopez-Guede… - Journal of Big Data, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Visual tracking of deepwater animals using machine learning-controlled robotic underwater vehicles

K Katija, PLD Roberts, J Daniels… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

Three distinct views of deep pelagic community composition based on complementary sampling approaches

ED Hetherington, CA Choy, EV Thuesen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Our perception of deep-sea communities has evolved as various sampling approaches have
captured different components of deep-sea habitats. We sampled midwater zooplankton …

Hidden diversity of Ctenophora revealed by new mitochondrial COI primers and sequences

LM Christianson, SB Johnson… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The mitochondrial gene cytochrome‐c‐oxidase subunit 1 (COI) is useful in many taxa for
phylogenetics, population genetics, metabarcoding, and rapid species identifications …

Designing Ocean Vision AI: An investigation of community needs for imaging-based ocean conservation

A Crosby, EC Orenstein, SE Poulton, KLC Bell… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Ocean scientists studying diverse organisms and phenomena increasingly rely on imaging
devices for their research. These scientists have many tools to collect their data, but few …