TagLab is an interactive
open source
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software system for facilitating the precise annotation of
benthic
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from ancient Greek, βένθος (bénthos), meaning "t ...
species in
orthophoto of the bottom of the sea. TagLab can automatically extract statistical informations about the evolution of monitored species and it
segments large images using
CNN-based algorithms.
TagLab used also for the monitoring of the health of coral reefs, in order to quantify over large orthophotos of the seabed the extent of
coral bleaching events.
Notable users of TagLab are
MOTE Marine Laboratory, the
Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology
The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) is a marine biology laboratory located on the state-owned Coconut Island in Kāneohe Bay.
History
The institute was established in 1912. It began as a wooden structure on the shores of Waikiki and o ...
,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or Scripps) in San Diego, California, US founded in 1903, is one of the oldest and largest centers for oceanography, ocean and Earth science research ...
.
TagLab is listed as one of the main tools for the standard operating procedures for the use of large-area imaging in
tropical shallow water coral reef monitoring, research, and restoration.
TagLab has won the 2023
VRVis
The VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung (VRVis) is the largest independent research center in the area of Visual Computing in Austria, and one of the largest in Europe. It is one of currently 22 centrally funded COMET – Com ...
Visual Computing Award for being "an open-source software solution that mitigates technological disparities between labs and promotes shared data standards and protocols".
References
Free graphics software
Image processing software
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