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The ocean is one of the least explored habitats on Earth. It is home to diverse animals, many of which are either unknown to science or poorly understood. Scientists are increasingly leveraging ocean-going camera systems to monitor populations and discover new animals. This combination of dense, image-based sampling and a poorly defined space of classes makes for a challenging computer vision problem: how do you get a machine-learning model to flag animals that are new and different? For this competition, the Ocean Vision AI team curated data from the broader FathomNet image set that is emblematic of this challenging use case. The training set contains 18 supercategories of marine animals collected along the ocean floor. The test set contains these same 18 supercategories AND new ones not represented in the training data. The challenge is to develop a model that can recognize the original 18 supercategories and flag unknown objects. Developing novel or general category discovery for ocean research will help scientists rapidly find unlabeled objects in historic datasets and enable creative field campaigns to seek out new life. Join the #FathomNet Kaggle Competition to solve novel category discovery in the deep sea and submit your solution by June 12: https://bit.ly/3wLZXkM 📸 Balloon worm Poeobius meseres, MBARI #CVPR2024 #FGVCWorkshop #Kaggle #TechTuesday #JuneIsOceanMonth
