Ruben Freitas

Universidade da Madeira | UMA · Laboratory for Usage-centered Software Engineering (Lab:USE)

Monitoring marine contamination by floating litter can be particularly challenging since debris are continuously moving over a large spatial extent pushed by currents, waves, and winds. Floating litter contamination have mostly relied on opportunistic surveys from vessels, modeling and, more recently, remote sensing with spectral analysis. This stu...

We present a research vision for deep learning (DL) in the oceans, collating applications and use cases as well as identifying opportunities, constraints, and open research challenges. Integrating DL in underwater explorations can automate and scale up monitoring as well as highlight practical challenges in enabling underwater operations.

Current trends in the global climate facilitate the displacement of numerous marine species from their native distribution ranges to higher latitudes when facing warming conditions. In this work, we analyzed occurrences of a circumtropical reef fish, the spotfin burrfish, Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1958), in the Madeira Archipelago (NE At...