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<p>As the deep sea alone covers over 50% of the Earth’s surface and represents the largest benthic system, the assessment of deep-sea megafauna communities is of great importance. However, even today the number of studies investigating this system is small and is further hampered by the resource- and time-consuming nature of traditional manual surveys. Therefore, it is of great importance to find efficient sampling methods and optimize processing techniques. On the one hand, sampling can be done by a variety of non-invasive methods, such as video documentation using seabed observation systems (OFOS) or seabed mapping using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). On the other hand, automated data analysis could be a faster alternative to manual processing by incorporating deep learning models. Here, we compare both sampling and processing techniques by providing novel and unique data on epi-megafauna (&gt; 2–5&#xa0;cm) from two overlapping surveys of an abyssal area at 10°N in the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. The 2017 datasets provided by OFOS were processed manually, while a manually trained deep learning detection model based on the YOLO V5 algorithm was used to process the 2015 AUV-dataset. Megafauna composition, total density and higher taxonomic densities as well as the occurrence of <i>Sargassum</i> patches were calculated and compared between the datasets. Significantly higher densities with additional megafauna forms were observed when the datasets were collected by an AUV and processed by the model. The results were discussed in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches to sampling and processing.</p>

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Detecting abyssal megabenthos in the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt – Comparing quantitative assessments via manually processed OFOS-videos with AUV-images utilising deep learning models

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    2026年7月3日

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  • Dominik Scepanski,
  • Johannes Werner,
  • Nico Augustin,
  • Marcel Rothenbeck,
  • Hartmut Arndt

摘要

As the deep sea alone covers over 50% of the Earth’s surface and represents the largest benthic system, the assessment of deep-sea megafauna communities is of great importance. However, even today the number of studies investigating this system is small and is further hampered by the resource- and time-consuming nature of traditional manual surveys. Therefore, it is of great importance to find efficient sampling methods and optimize processing techniques. On the one hand, sampling can be done by a variety of non-invasive methods, such as video documentation using seabed observation systems (OFOS) or seabed mapping using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). On the other hand, automated data analysis could be a faster alternative to manual processing by incorporating deep learning models. Here, we compare both sampling and processing techniques by providing novel and unique data on epi-megafauna (> 2–5 cm) from two overlapping surveys of an abyssal area at 10°N in the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. The 2017 datasets provided by OFOS were processed manually, while a manually trained deep learning detection model based on the YOLO V5 algorithm was used to process the 2015 AUV-dataset. Megafauna composition, total density and higher taxonomic densities as well as the occurrence of Sargassum patches were calculated and compared between the datasets. Significantly higher densities with additional megafauna forms were observed when the datasets were collected by an AUV and processed by the model. The results were discussed in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches to sampling and processing.