3 papers
cs.CV2026
Weakly Supervised Seafloor Segmentation for Seagrass Habitat Mapping in Side-Scan Sonar Imagery
Hayat Rajani, Nuno Gracias, Rafael Garcia
Seagrass meadows are crucial blue-carbon habitats, and mapping their extent is a prerequisite for coastal management and carbon inventory. Optical satellite sensors cover large are…
cs.CV2026
Geometry-Driven Opti-Acoustic Co-Registration and View-Invariant Reflectivity Mapping for Side-Scan Sonar
Taqi Hamoda, Nuno Gracias
Side-Scan Sonar (SSS) is a primary modality for large-scale underwater mapping, yet automated perception and cross-modal alignment are severely bottlenecked by acoustic complexitie…
cs.CV2026
BenthicDINO: Physics-Informed Self-Distillation for View-Invariant Side-Scan Sonar Representations
Taqi Hamoda, Hayat Rajani, Nuno Gracias
Automated perception in side-scan sonar (SSS) imagery is severely hindered by physical acoustic artifacts, resulting in representations that inextricably mix intrinsic seabed refle…