Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 164, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.111974
Keywords
Seafloor marine litter; Object detection; Mask R-CNN; Deep learning; Aegean Sea; Mediterranean Sea
Funding
- [LIFE14 GIE/GR/001127]
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The study introduces an automatic detection approach for seafloor marine litter using deep learning, achieving a mean average precision score of 62% on an independently evaluated dataset. The presence of background features results in a higher number of predicted litter items compared to observed ones.
Aerial and underwater imaging is being widely used for monitoring litter objects found at the sea surface, beaches and seafloor. However, litter monitoring requires a considerable amount of human effort, indicating the need for automatic and cost-effective approaches. Here we present an object detection approach that automat-ically detects seafloor marine litter in a real-world environment using a Region-based Convolution Neural Network. The neural network is trained on an imagery with 11 manually annotated litter categories and then evaluated on an independent part of the dataset, attaining a mean average precision score of 62%. The presence of other background features in the imagery (e.g., algae, seagrass, scattered boulders) resulted to higher number of predicted litter items compare to the observed ones. The results of the study are encouraging and suggest that deep learning has the potential to become a significant tool for automatically recognizing seafloor litter in surveys, accomplishing continuous and precise litter monitoring.
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