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  • Archey's frog on fern. Photo by James Reardon.

Archey’s frog landmark detection – Part I

October 21st, 2021|

Welcome to the first of two posts where I will explain how we have developed landmark detection models to locate Archey's frogs. Our models, like the commonly used face-detection models, predict six frog landmarks [...]

  • Example of the fish automatic identification of baited underwater video.

How we used ML to identify fish

September 24th, 2021|

In this short post, I will share how our team of volunteers (data rangers) used machine learning to identify fish from underwater videos. I hope the description of our work processes and methods are [...]

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Koster Seafloor Observatory 2.0

April 15th, 2021|

The Koster Seafloor Observatory 2.0 has new movies of wonderful seafloor critters, extensive identification keys, and teaching modules for students. Underwater video of the artificial intelligence algorithm recognising a cold water [...]

  • Screenshot of the Koster Seafloor Observatory homepage

Koster Observatory Initial Results

April 10th, 2021|

Citizen scientists have analysed +50,000 videos and trained a machine learning model to recognise cold water corals! Underwater video of the artificial intelligence algorithm recognising a cold water coral in [...]