The Marine Debris Dataset for Forward-Looking Sonar Semantic Segmentation
Deepak Singh, Matias Valdenegro-Toro

TL;DR
This paper introduces a new dataset of marine debris images captured with Forward Looking Sonar for semantic segmentation, providing a benchmark for evaluating segmentation models in underwater environments.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel, publicly available marine debris dataset using FLS imagery and benchmarks several segmentation architectures without pretrained weights.
Findings
Unet with ResNet34 achieved 0.7481 mIoU.
The dataset includes 1868 grayscale images with 11 debris classes.
Baseline results establish a reference for future research.
Abstract
Accurate detection and segmentation of marine debris is important for keeping the water bodies clean. This paper presents a novel dataset for marine debris segmentation collected using a Forward Looking Sonar (FLS). The dataset consists of 1868 FLS images captured using ARIS Explorer 3000 sensor. The objects used to produce this dataset contain typical house-hold marine debris and distractor marine objects (tires, hooks, valves,etc), divided in 11 classes plus a background class. Performance of state of the art semantic segmentation architectures with a variety of encoders have been analyzed on this dataset and presented as baseline results. Since the images are grayscale, no pretrained weights have been used. Comparisons are made using Intersection over Union (IoU). The best performing model is Unet with ResNet34 backbone at 0.7481 mIoU. The dataset is available at…
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TopicsAdvanced Neural Network Applications · Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
