Browsing by Author "Fulton, Michael S"

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    Trash-ICRA19: A Bounding Box Labeled Dataset of Underwater Trash
    (2020-07-21) Fulton, Michael S; Hong, Jungseok; Sattar, Junaed; irvlab@umn.edu; Sattar, Junaed; Interactive Robotics and Vision Lab
    This data was sourced from the J-EDI dataset of marine debris. The videos that comprise that dataset vary greatly in quality, depth, objects in scenes, and the cameras used. They contain images of many different types of marine debris, captured from real-world environments, providing a variety of objects in different states of decay, occlusion, and overgrowth. Additionally, the clarity of the water and quality of the light vary significantly from video to video. These videos were processed to extract 5,700 images, which comprise this dataset, all labeled with bounding boxes on instances of trash, biological objects such as plants and animals, and ROVs. The eventual goal is to develop efficient and accurate trash detection methods suitable for onboard robot deployment. It is our hope that the release of this dataset will facilitate further research on this challenging problem, bringing the marine robotics community closer to a solution for the urgent problem of autonomous trash detection and removal.
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    TrashCan 1.0 An Instance-Segmentation Labeled Dataset of Trash Observations
    (2020-07-23) Hong, Jungseok; Fulton, Michael S; Sattar, Junaed; irvlab@umn.edu; Sattar, Junaed; Interactive Robotics and Vision Lab
    The TrashCan dataset is comprised of annotated images (7,212 images currently) which contain observations of trash, ROVs, and a wide variety of undersea flora and fauna. The annotations in this dataset take the format of instance segmentation annotations: bitmaps containing a mask marking which pixels in the image contain each object. The imagery in TrashCan is sourced from the J-EDI (JAMSTEC E-Library of Deep-sea Images) dataset, curated by the Japan Agency of Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). This dataset contains videos from ROVs operated by JAMSTEC since 1982, largely in the sea of Japan. The dataset has two versions, TrashCan-Material and TrashCan-Instance, corresponding to different object class configurations. The eventual goal is to develop efficient and accurate trash detection methods suitable for onboard robot deployment. While datasets have previously been created containing bounding box level annotations of trash in marine environments, TrashCan is, to the best of our knowledge, the first instance-segmentation annotated dataset of underwater trash. It is our hope that the release of this dataset will facilitate further research on this challenging problem, bringing the marine robotics community closer to a solution for the urgent problem of autonomous trash detection and removal.