3 papers
cs.RO2025
Design and Development of the MeCO Open-Source Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
David Widhalm, Cory Ohnsted, Corey Knutson +6
We present MeCO, the Medium Cost Open-source autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a versatile autonomous vehicle designed to support research and development in underwater human-ro…
cs.CV2025
The Common Objects Underwater (COU) Dataset for Robust Underwater Object Detection
Rishi Mukherjee, Sakshi Singh, Jack McWilliams +1
We introduce COU: Common Objects Underwater, an instance-segmented image dataset of commonly found man-made objects in multiple aquatic and marine environments. COU contains approx…
cs.CV2025
IBURD: Image Blending for Underwater Robotic Detection
Jungseok Hong, Sakshi Singh, Junaed Sattar
We present an image blending pipeline, \textit{IBURD}, that creates realistic synthetic images to assist in the training of deep detectors for use on underwater autonomous vehicles…