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MAZOOPS goes out to sea with the Cal-Echoes Cruise |
Graduate students Christian Briseno and Lina Lawrence took the second version of our zooplaknton imaging sonar (MAZOOPS) out on the R/V Melville as part of the Cal-Echoes Research Program. This version of MAZOOPS provides high-resolution (~30 micron) optical images and high-frequency, broadband... |
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MAZOOPS first deployment at sea |
We returned yesterday from the first deployment of the new MAZOOPS zooplankton sonar at sea. We were able to deploy the system several times per day, and collected nearly 100 GB of acoustic and image data from two different stations off the coast of San Diego. Deployments of the MAZOOPS were... |
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The ZOOplankton Sonar (ZOOPS) is a multiview, multimodal acoustic and optical zooplankton sonar system. It combines multiple, broadband acoustic sensors with a high-resolution camera and narrowband optical illumination. The system aims to provide enhanced information of zooplankton distributions in... |
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MAZOOPS coming together for Sept. Cruise |
After more than a year of hard work, the Multiple Angle ZOOPlankton Sonar (MAZOOPS) is nearly ready for deployment at sea in September. On Friday we started the final assembly and will begin tank tests on Monday. |
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WACV paper on multi* fusion submitted last week |
Last week we submitted a paper to the 2009 Worshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). The paper presents some recent results on fusing multiple views and multiple modalities together to improve classification performance. The application was to zooplankton classification which has... |
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Return from Dabob Bay |
We just returned from our spring cruise to Dabob Bay in the state of Washington. The purpose of our cruise was to explore a hypothesis that has to do with the foraging behavior of zooplankton, the small (1-4 mm) animals that live in the sea. Every night they make a big trip to the surface waters... |
