Title
Deep Fusion Net for Coral Classification in Fluorescence and Reflectance Images
Abstract
Coral reefs are vital for marine ecosystem and fishing industry. Automatic classification of corals is essential for the preservation and study of coral reefs. However, significant intra-class variations and inter-class similarity among coral genera, as well as the challenges of underwater illumination present a great hindrance for the automatic classification. We propose an end-to-end trainable Deep Fusion Net for the classification of corals from two types of images. The network takes two simultaneous inputs of reflectance and fluorescence images. It is composed of three branches: Reflectance, Fluorescence and Integration. The branches are first trained individually and then fused together. Finally, the Deep Fusion Net is trained end-to-end for the classification of different coral genera and other non-coral classes. Experiments on the challenging Eliat Fluorescence Coral dataset show that the Deep Fusion net achieves superior classification accuracy compared to other methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/DICTA47822.2019.8945925
2019 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
deep intermediate fusion,coral classification,reflectance,fluorescence,deep learning
Coral,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Marine ecosystem,Coral reef,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Reflectivity
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-3858-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Uzair Nadeem100.34
M. Bennamoun23197167.23
Ferdous Sohel300.34
Roberto Togneri481448.33