DeepSeagrass Dataset

We introduce a dataset of seagrass images collected by a biologist snorkelling in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, as described in our publication: arXiv:2009.09924. The images are labelled at the image-level by collecting images of the same morphotype in a folder hierarchy. We also release pre-trained models and training codes for detection and classification of seagrass species at the patch level at https://github.com/csiro-robotics/deepseagrass.

Multi-species Seagrass Detection and Classification from Underwater Images

Underwater surveys conducted using divers or robots equipped with customized camera payloads can generate a large number of images. Manual review of these images to extract ecological data is prohibitive in terms of time and cost, thus providing strong incentive to automate this process using machine learning solutions. In this paper, we introduce a multi-species detector and classifier for seagrasses based on a deep convolutional neural network (achieved an overall accuracy of 92.4%). We also introduce a simple method to semi-automatically label image patches and therefore minimize manual labelling requirement. We describe and release publicly the dataset collected in this study as well as the code and pre-trained models to replicate our experiments at: https://github.com/csiro-robotics/deepseagrass