Automating the Boring Stuff: Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Mapping Coral Reefs

A summary of my thesis presented online to a group of ecologist during the COVDID-19 social distancing period. For more info, check out: My thesis looks at streamlining an ecologist’s workflow by reducing the amount of time that is needed to annotate imagery (a very boring task indeed), by automating the process with multiple computer vision algorithms. I also found that I could combine these automatically generated annotations to be used in combination with SfM-photogrammetry, a popu