Digital imaging can be a useful non-invasive tool in many biological studies. This research focuses on the challenge of manually analyzing large image sets and attempts to satisfy the need for rapid classification and measurement in changing environments using automatic segmentation and detection. This research demonstrates methods for training CNN automatic semantic segmentation algorithms using sparsely labeled data, for using transfer learning for automatic detection in large datasets and using multimodal image input (RGB + fluorescence) for segmentation. The applications of these solutions are focused on the marine environment, mostly for coral segmentation and marine animal detection.
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Publications
CoralSeg: Learning coral segmentation from sparse annotations. Iñigo Alonso, et al. Journal of Field Robotics, 2019.
Methods and measurement variance for field estimations of coral colony planar area using underwater photographs and semi-automated image segmentation. B. P. Neal, et al. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2015.
Automated Analysis of Marine Video With Limited Data. Deborah Levy, et al. CVPR, 2018.
Towards automated annotation of benthic survey images: variability of human experts and operational modes of automation. O. Beijbom, et al. PLOS One, 2015.
Coral-Segmentation: Training Dense Labeling Models with Sparse Ground Truth. Iñigo Alonso, et al. ICCV, 2017.
Pose, Illumination and Expression Invariant Pairwise Face-Similarity Measure via Doppelganger List Comparison. Florian Schroff, et al. ICCV 2011.