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Automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms in high-resolution in situ imagery to aid biodiversity monitoring: optimal model weights

Model weights for the optimal object detection model, trained on the Weddell Sea Benthic Dataset. Trained 2025-05. Weights should be used with a Deformable-DETR architecture.

This work was funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/W01002X/1 'The past, present and future of unique cold-water benthic (sea floor) ecosystems in the Southern Ocean' awarded to Rowan Whittle.

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2025-06-06
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2025-06-06
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2025-06-06
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2025-06-06
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1.0
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https://doi.org/10.5285/b2874f3f-285d-4ae6-9bb4-6bfe3eacbfff
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Please cite this item as: Trotter, C., Griffiths, H.J., Khan, T.M., & Whittle, R.J. (2025). Automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms in high-resolution in situ imagery to aid biodiversity monitoring: optimal model weights (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b2874f3f-285d-4ae6-9bb4-6bfe3eacbfff
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  British Antarctic Survey - Trotter, Cameron ( Researcher )
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  British Antarctic Survey - Griffiths, Huw J. ( Researcher )
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  British Antarctic Survey - Khan, Tasnuva M. ( Researcher )
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Whittle, Rowan J. ( Researcher )
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  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Biodiversity
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Environment Monitoring
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  • Benthos
  • biodiversity monitoring
  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • marine ecology
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  • Habitats and biotopes
  • Oceanographic geographical features
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2025-05-28
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It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Date (Publication)
2008-11-12
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  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Methodology:

Model weights for a Deformable-DETR architecture, trained to detect 25 Antarctic benthic morphotypes using the Weddell Sea Benthic Dataset (see Related URLs). Model version: 1.0.0.

Model weights correspond to the optimal object detection model capable of automated benthic organism detection as described in [in-prep].

For model development code, (see Related URLs).

Data collection:

The model was trained using a single High Performance Computing node with CentOS 7, and one NVIDIA A2 GPU. Training was performed using Python v3.8.20 alongside the following packages:

MMDetection v3.3.0 [1]

Pytorch v2.4.0

Pytorch-cuda v12.1

torchvision v0.19.0

sahi v0.11.22 [2]

albumentations v1.3.1 [3]

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  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
 
 

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Benthos biodiversity monitoring computer vision deep learning marine ecology
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Habitats and biotopes Oceanographic geographical features
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Biodiversity EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Environment Monitoring

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