Seafloor Mapping Lab
Developing tools and techniques to map the seafloor autonomously and with high resolution.
Developing tools and techniques to map the seafloor autonomously and with high resolution.
One of the major themes of MBARI’s current research is the increasing dependence on real-time data for informed decision-making during the course of field experiments.
We have developed an automated system for detecting marine organisms visible in the videos. Video frames are processed with a neuromorphic selective attention algorithm. The candidate objects of interest are tracked across video frames using linear Kalman filters. If objects can be tracked successfully over several frames, they are labeled as potentially “interesting” and marked in the video frames.