Semantic Segmentation of Underwater Imagery: Dataset and Benchmark

Md Jahidul Islam,Chelsey Edge,Yuyang Xiao,Peigen Luo,Muntaqim Mehtaz,Christopher Morse,Sadman Sakib Enan,Junaed Sattar,Md Jahidul Islam,Chelsey Edge,Yuyang Xiao,Peigen Luo,Muntaqim Mehtaz,Christopher Morse,Sadman Sakib Enan,Junaed Sattar

In this paper, we present the first large-scale dataset for semantic Segmentation of Underwater IMagery (SUIM). It contains over 1500 images with pixel annotations for eight object categories: fish (vertebrates), reefs (invertebrates), aquatic plants, wrecks/ruins, human divers, robots, and sea-floor. The images have been rigorously collected during oceanic explorations and human-robot collaborati...