5 papers
Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling
Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan +3
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are…
Sonar-GPS Fusion for Seabed Mapping in Turbid Shallow Waters with an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
Yisheng Zhang, Michael Xu, Alan Williams +3
Accurate seabed mapping is essential for habitat monitoring and infrastructure inspection. In turbid, shallow coastal waters, such as shellfish aquaculture farms, the effectiveness…
DREAM: Domain-aware Reasoning for Efficient Autonomous Underwater Monitoring
Zhenqi Wu, Abhinav Modi, Angelos Mavrogiannis +6
The ocean is warming and acidifying, increasing the risk of mass mortality events for temperature-sensitive shellfish such as oysters. This motivates the development of long-term m…
Whale Detection Enhancement through Synthetic Satellite Images
Akshaj Gaur, Cheng Liu, Xiaomin Lin +2
With a number of marine populations in rapid decline, collecting and analyzing data about marine populations has become increasingly important to develop effective conservation pol…
UIVNAV: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning
Xiaomin Lin, Nare Karapetyan, Kaustubh Joshi +5
Autonomous navigation in the underwater environment is challenging due to limited visibility, dynamic changes, and the lack of a cost-efficient accurate localization system. We int…