Handfish Detection

 Handfish are a rare and endangered species found around the coast of Tasmania.  Manually identifying handfish in images taken by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), like the image here, is slow and time-consuming.

Using machine learning, I have trained an object detector with very few examples for training.  The map below shows where handfish have been identified in AUV images by either. human or the machine learning object detector.

Handfish are difficult to identify in AUV images as shown in the image above.  
Best viewed on monitor or tablet.  Map showing detections of handfish in images captured by AUV Sirius and AUV Nimbus as part of the Integrated Marine Observation System (IMOS).  The markers show detection of a handfish by either an human annotator (eye icon) or by a machine learning object detector (gear icon).