The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory (EMSO) aims to explore the oceans, better understand the phenomena happening within and below them, and explain the critical role that these phenomena play in the broader Earth systems. Several of the EMSO sites capture underwater videos. The Marine Ecosystem Monitoring system has developed standards for managing and storing video imagery, and annotated images have been developed.
EMSO workflow has been set up in the iMagine AI Platform using artificial intelligence to preselect interesting images and analyze selected images for the identification of biota. Documentation and guidance about standard data management practices and the use of AI analysis pipelines for biota classification have also been developed.
Three services will be available on the iMagine AI Platform: a) fish abundance estimation, b) real-time fish detections, and c) benthic species detection.
