4 accepted papers
We present MeCO, the Medium Cost Open-source autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a versatile autonomous vehicle designed to support research and development in underwater human-robot interaction (UHRI) and marine robotics in general. An inexpensive platform to build compared to similarly-capable AU
We present an image blending pipeline, IBURD, that creates realistic synthetic images to assist in the training of deep detectors for use on underwater autonomous vehicles (AUVs) for marine debris detection tasks. Specifically, IBURD generates both images of underwater debris and their pixel-level a
Underwater debris is a significantly growing challenge that autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) can help alleviate, but robot-guided debris search and removal can also cause harm to the aquatic ecosystem or other humans engaged in cleanup missions if the AUVs are unable to assess the risks associa
We introduce COU: Common Objects Underwater, an instance-segmented image dataset of commonly found man-made objects in multiple aquatic and marine environments. COU contains approximately 10K segmented images, annotated from images collected during a number of underwater robot field trials in divers