632,252 expert image annotations for Antarctic seafloor imagery collected across 21 research campaigns between 1985 and 2019. Annotations follow the CATAMI classification scheme and include point grids, bounding boxes for mobile fauna, and boxes for Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem species. This snapshot of the Antarctic Seafloor Annotated Imagery Database (AS-AID) is accessible via the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- Investigate species distributions and community patterns based on expert annotations across 21 campaigns.
- Assess ecological change over time using annotations spanning from 1985 to 2019.
- Train machine learning algorithms for automatic detection and annotation of marine fauna based on point grid and bounding box annotations.
- Study Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem species using the dedicated bounding box annotation set.
Strengths
- 632,252 expert annotations provide a substantial labeled dataset.
- Annotations span 21 Antarctic research campaigns over a 34-year period (1985-2019).
- Annotations are based on the standardized CATAMI classification scheme and have been reviewed by experts.
- Includes three distinct annotation types: point grids (108 points per image), bounding boxes for mobile fauna, and bounding boxes for select benthic species.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Expert annotations of seafloor imagery from Antarctic research campaigns.
- Time Range
- 1985 to 2019
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-23 01:19:16.355980; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Antarctic region