Identification of Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and attention model.

ABSTRACT: Coral reefs play important roles in the marine ecosystem, from providing shelter to aquatic lives to being a source of income to others. However, they are in danger from outbreaks of species like the Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) and the widespread coral bleaching from rising sea temperatures. The identification of COTS for detecting outbreaks is a challenging task and is often done through snorkelling and diving activities with limited range, where strong currents result in poor image capture, damage of capturing equipment, and are of high risks. This paper proposes a novel approach for the automatic detection of COTS based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with an enhanced attention module. Different pre-trained CNN models, namely, VGG19 and MobileNetV2 have been applied to our datase

SUBMITTER: Heenaye-Mamode Khan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10075425 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature