reefsupport/CoralSCOP

🌊 Reef Support

We at Reef Support are dedicated to providing cutting-edge tools and technologies to support marine conservation efforts around the globe. Our mission is to protect and restore marine ecosystems using innovative AI-driven solutions. One key aspect is coral segmentation, which we integrate into our MariMap application to empower marine biologists and conservationists with accurate and efficient coral reef analysis.

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CoralSCOP: Segment Any Coral Image on this Planet

GitHub | Project page | Paper

CoralSCOP is the first foundation model for coral reef segmentation. It builds upon Segment Anything Model (SAM) but addresses the semantic-agnostic limitations and includes additional training data & strategies for underwater coral scenes. This powerful model will be made available through Reef Support’s MariMap application, enhancing our ability to analyze coral reefs worldwide.

Model Weights

• Checkpoint: vit_b_coralscop.pth (ViT-B backbone)

Main Features

• Parallel semantic branch: better ability to differentiate coral vs. non-coral, individual coral boundaries, coral species, etc.
• Train with negatives: reduce false positives in large-scale underwater imagery.
• Promptable reef segmentation: can accept point, box, or text prompts to refine or specify the target coral classes.

Acknowledgement

Thank you to the whole CoralSCOP team for their amazing contribution to the Marine Science community 💙🌊