IAPR Technical Committee TC5: Computer Vision for Underwater Environmental Monitoring (CVUEM)

CVUEM (Computer Vision for Underwater Monitoring) a Technical Committee affiliated with IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) and focuses on the development of computer vision and image processing techniques for applications in environmental underwater monitoring. Environmental monitoring encompasses a wide range of activities and tasks, such as:

• habitat mapping

• species identification

• estimation of species diversity and abundance

• analysis of animal behaviour

CVUEM runs the Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI) IAPR workshop series and is also closely involved in other workshops such as the Marine Imaging Workshop (MIW).

We encourage all interested people to join and participate to our newly created Linkedin Group!

• underwater image enhancement

• 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