FathomNet: An underwater image training database for ocean exploration and discovery

Understand

Thousands of hours of marine video data are collected annually from remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and other underwater assets.

• However, current manual methods of analysis impede the full utilization of collected data for real time algorithms for ROV and large biodiversity analyses.
• FathomNet is a novel baseline image training set, optimized to accelerate development of modern, intelligent, and automated analysis of underwater imagery.
• Our seed data set consists of an expertly annotated and continuously maintained database with more than 26,000 hours of videotape, 6.8 million annotations, and 4,349 terms in the knowledge base.