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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Semi-Automated Data Processing and Semi-Supervised Machine Learning for the Detection and Classification of Water-Column Fish Schools and Gas Seeps with a Multibeam Echosounder.

Annalisa Minelli, Anna Nora Tassetti, Briony Hutton, Gerardo N Pezzuti Cozzolino, Toby Jarvis, Gianna Fabi

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Annalisa MinelliNational Research Council, Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (CNR-IRBIM), largo Fiera della Pesca 1, 60125 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1772-0154
Anna Nora TassettiNational Research Council, Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (CNR-IRBIM), largo Fiera della Pesca 1, 60125 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5946-7877
Briony HuttonEchoview Software Pty Ltd., GPO Box 1387, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
Gerardo N Pezzuti CozzolinoSFERANET S.R.L. Via Giulio Vincenzo Bona, 120, 00156 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9209-6526
Toby JarvisEchoview Software Pty Ltd., GPO Box 1387, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
Gianna FabiNational Research Council, Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (CNR-IRBIM), largo Fiera della Pesca 1, 60125 Ancona, Italy.
National Research Council · ITFondazione Vincenzo Pansadoro · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multibeam echosounders are widely used for 3D bathymetric mapping, and increasingly for water column studies. However, they rapidly collect huge volumes of data, which poses a challenge for water column data processing that is often still manual and time-consuming, or affected by low efficiency and high false detection rates if automated. This research describes a comprehensive and reproducible workflow that improves efficiency and reliability of target detection and classification, by calculating metrics for target cross-sections using a commercial software before feeding into a feature-based semi-supervised machine learning framework. The method is tested with data collected from an uncalibrated multibeam echosounder around an offshore gas platform in the Adriatic Sea. It resulted in more-efficient target detection, and, although uncertainties regarding user labelled training data need to be underlined, an accuracy of 98% in target classification was reached by using a final pre-trained stacking ensemble model.

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Supervised Machine LearningWaterAnimalsReproducibility of ResultsSchoolsWaterfish schoolsgas plumesmachine learningmultibeam echosoundertarget detection and classificationwater column imaging

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PMID33923343
PMCPMC8123111
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