| Title | Autonomous Acoustic Trigger for Distributed Underwater Visual Monitoring Systems |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Wilby, Antonella, Slattery, Ethan, Hostler, Andrew, Kastner, Ryan |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-4637-5 |
| Keywords | acoustic triggering, autonomous monitoring, biological surveys, Metrics, pubcrawl, Resiliency, scalabilty, underwater cameras, Underwater Networks |
| Abstract | The ability to obtain reliable, long-term visual data in marine habitats has the potential to transform biological surveys of marine species. However, the underwater environment poses several challenges to visual monitoring: turbidity and light attenuation impede the range of optical sensors, biofouling clouds lenses and underwater housings, and marine species typically range over a large area, far outside of the range of a single camera sensor. Due to these factors, a continuously-recording or time-lapse visual sensor will not be gathering useful data the majority of the time, wasting battery life and filling limited onboard storage with useless images. These limitations make visual monitoring difficult in marine environments, but visual data is invaluable to biologists studying the behaviors and interactions of a species. This paper describes an acoustic-based, autonomous triggering approach to counter the current limitations of underwater visual sensing, and motivates the need for a distributed sensor network for underwater visual monitoring. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2999504.3001080 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2999504.3001080 |
| Citation Key | wilby_autonomous_2016 |
Autonomous Acoustic Trigger for Distributed Underwater Visual Monitoring Systems