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The effect of physics-based corrections and data augmentation on transfer learning for segmentation of benthic imagery

The effect of physics-based corrections and data augmentation on transfer learning for segmentation of benthic imagery
The effect of physics-based corrections and data augmentation on transfer learning for segmentation of benthic imagery
Ocean observation has been greatly improved by theuse of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Remotely OperatedVehicles, and the high quality and high quantity of imagery theyproduce. This quantity of images collected on research cruiseshas, however, become intractable using traditional manual imageanalysis methods. There is a growing need for automation of thisprocess, using methods such as deep learning to analyse and sum-marise the information present, yet research into how to improvetheir performance for underwater images is currently limited.This paper presents a study into the effect of using physics-basedcorrections and data augmentation to aid the performance ofDeepLabV3, a state of the art image segmentation system. Usingmetadata about the physical environment the images were takenin, particularly the altitude of the vehicle for each image, andthe known wavelength dependent light attenuation over distancethrough water, reduces the generalisation error of the DeepLabV3system.
2573-3796
IEEE
Walker, Jennifer
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Prugel-Bennett, Adam
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Walker, Jennifer, Prugel-Bennett, Adam, Thornton, Blair and Yamada, Takaki (2019) The effect of physics-based corrections and data augmentation on transfer learning for segmentation of benthic imagery. In 2019 IEEE Underwater Technology (UT). IEEE. 8 pp . (doi:10.1109/UT.2019.8734463).

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Ocean observation has been greatly improved by theuse of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Remotely OperatedVehicles, and the high quality and high quantity of imagery theyproduce. This quantity of images collected on research cruiseshas, however, become intractable using traditional manual imageanalysis methods. There is a growing need for automation of thisprocess, using methods such as deep learning to analyse and sum-marise the information present, yet research into how to improvetheir performance for underwater images is currently limited.This paper presents a study into the effect of using physics-basedcorrections and data augmentation to aid the performance ofDeepLabV3, a state of the art image segmentation system. Usingmetadata about the physical environment the images were takenin, particularly the altitude of the vehicle for each image, andthe known wavelength dependent light attenuation over distancethrough water, reduces the generalisation error of the DeepLabV3system.

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Submitted date: March 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: April 2019
Venue - Dates: Underwater Technology 2019, , Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2019-04-16 - 2019-04-19

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Local EPrints ID: 428954
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428954
ISSN: 2573-3796
PURE UUID: 3774bd3e-ecac-4fc0-9a25-b8f90bc69ac3
ORCID for Jennifer Walker: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1449-9012
ORCID for Takaki Yamada: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5090-7239

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2019 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:31

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Author: Jennifer Walker ORCID iD
Author: Adam Prugel-Bennett
Author: Blair Thornton
Author: Takaki Yamada ORCID iD

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