IAPR Technical Committee TC5: Computer Vision for Underwater Environmental Monitoring

This Technical Committee (TC) of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) focuses on the development of computer vision techniques for applications in environmental underwater monitoring. Environmental monitoring encompasses a wide range of activities, such as:

• habitat mapping

• species identification

• estimation of species diversity and abundance

• analysis of animal behaviour

Our TC runs regular workshops including the Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI) and Marine Imaging Workshop (MIW)!

We encourage you all to participate in our google forum to find great datasets, challenges, papers, and colleagues! 

• underwater image enhancement and restoration

• physical models of reflectance and light transport

• underwater scene understanding

• classification, detection, and segmentation of underwater stationary and moving objects

• autonomous underwater navigation

• detection and monitoring of marine and freshwater life

• detection of invasive species in marine and freshwater environments

• automatic assessment of biodiversity and species abundance from visual data

• tracking of underwater moving objects

• automatic video annotation and summarization

• context-aware machine learning and image understanding

• fusion of optical imaging and passive acoustics