Machine-learning-based size estimation of marine particles in holograms recorded by a submersible digital holographic camera

Liu, Zonghua; Giering, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Thevar, Thangavel; Burns, Nick; Ockwell, Mike; Watson, John. 2023 Machine-learning-based size estimation of marine particles in holograms recorded by a submersible digital holographic camera. In: Oceans 2023 - Limerick, Limerick, 05 - 08 June 2023. IEEE Xplore, 1-8.

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Particle size estimation is key to understanding carbon fluxes and storage in the marine ecosystem. Images of particles provide much information about their size. A subsea digital holographic camera was used to image particles in vertical trajectory in South Georgia. The holograms were processed using a rapid hologram processing suite that extracted focused particle vignettes from these raw holograms. A machine-learning-based method has been developed to analyse the particle size information from these vignettes. To be specific, a structured-forest-based model trained on a group of synthetic holographic particle images is used to detect the particle edges in these vignettes. Following that, a set of pixel-wise morphology operators are used to extract particle regions (masks) from their edge images. Lastly, the size information of the recorded particles can be calculated based on these mask images. The proposed method has been evaluated on a group of synthetic holograms and real holograms, compared with the other ten methods, including four edge-based methods, four region-based methods, a thresholding-based method, and a Kmeans-based method. The results show that our method has the best performance regarding accuracy and processing time. It reaches ∼0.7 of mean IoU and ∼25 s of running time on the 1,000 test vignettes. In terms of qualitative analysis, the regions of the given examples extracted by the proposed method closely match the real particle regions. We also use this method to analyse the size distributions of two profiles, and some generic results are given in this paper.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Paper)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1109/OCEANSLimerick52467.2023.10244456
Date made live:	29 Nov 2023 12:50 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536353

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