Community
The global Marine Imaging Community brings together scientists and engineers at the cutting edge of marine imaging research and technology development, along with users from regulatory agencies, consultancies and industrial partners that apply marine imaging for scientific aims, exploration, art, training or environmental monitoring.
With our multidisciplinary approach, we aim to advance the capabilities and application potential of underwater imaging methods and technology by:
- discussing and promoting image-based research and technological improvements;
- sharing new applications of marine imaging methods;
- facilitating the incorporation of domain knowledge and experience from imaging stakeholders; and,
- developing community-wide best practices for marine imaging.
Our scope includes methods and technology for all types of underwater optical imaging, including still images (photos) and moving images (video), captured by cameras on all types of imaging platforms in both pelagic and benthic environments. We address all stages of marine imaging, from survey design to camera and platform engineering to image acquisition, image processing, image manipulation through imagery annotation to FAIR image data management and applications of artificial intelligence / computer vision techniques.
We host the Marine Imaging Workshop, which welcomes participants from all marine imaging-related backgrounds and levels of experience. We develop and advertise hands on material to help marine imagers strive for better creation, use and publication of image data.
Our communication channels are a mailing list and a Slack channel. Just send us an email to be added to the mailing list or checkout marineimaging.slack.com to join the discussions.
