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CoralSCOP-LAT home illustration of a colourful coral reef

Web app

CoralSCOP-LAT

Coral labelling and analysis tool, powered by CoralSCOP

Upload reef photos and CoralSCOP segments every coral automatically. You then label, clean up and measure the results in the browser.

  • Automatic coral masks, filtered by size, confidence and overlap
  • Custom labels with per-image area statistics
  • Reference lines to convert pixels to real-world scale
  • Coral Watch colour chart for bleaching assessment
  • Save and reopen projects as a single file
Open CoralSCOP-LAT
Diagram comparing multi-image photogrammetry with BCV, which estimates depth from a single top-down reef image to measure rugosity, fractal dimension and height range

Web app

BenthicComplexVision

BCV: reef structural complexity from a single underwater image

Upload one top-down photo of the seabed. An AI depth model turns it into a 2.5D surface and measures how structurally complex the habitat is, in seconds instead of the hours photogrammetry takes.

  • Rugosity and fractal dimension from a single vertical image
  • Height range in real units from about 10 scale reference points
  • Adjustable kernel size and region-of-interest selection
  • Results in under 5 seconds, using megabytes of data instead of gigabytes
  • Works with existing photoquadrats and long-term monitoring imagery
Open BenthicComplexVision
MarineInst online interface segmenting a fish on a reef and showing its object mask caption

Web app

MarineInst Online

Segment and caption any instance in the marine ecosystem

Point at or box an organism in an underwater photo and MarineInst returns its instance mask plus a written description, powered by the MarineInst foundation model.

  • Point and box prompts for quick instance selection
  • Auto-generate instance masks that separate overlapping organisms
  • Visual descriptions of each selected object
  • Works across reef scenes and open water
  • Runs online in the browser, no installation needed
Open MarineInst Online