Training Projects

DeepSense has compiled a few data sets for students, and others interested in the ocean and AI, so they can have the opportunity to complete AI projects independently. We hope participants can learn about a specific type of ocean related data, and experience an explicit AI project. It is expected that the participants work on the project alone, but we have provided some guidance that includes notebooks, data, outputs and models to try to improve upon.

We have found that the data cleaning step can take a long time, so our hope is that these datasets will be reasonably clean, allowing the participants to explore ocean AI.

1. Object Detection

We used the google open images database to obtain approximately 650 images of starfish. The images were already separated into train, test and validation sets. The metadata linked below is only for the starfish images, not for the entire dataset. The metadata includes coordinates for bounding boxes around the starfish.

Starfish Dataset

Training metadata

Test metadata

Validation metadata

If you want to download other categories of images from the open images database, you can do so by following the instructions here:

Download Instructions

2. Regression

The buoy collects environment measurements including wind speed and direction, surface temperature, current speed, wave height, and peak wave period. This wind and wave data are used to decide if conditions allow the safe transfer of pilots and passage of vessels, as they require a minimum depth of water which may not be met if the waves are too large. The current Red Shoal Buoy is under maintenance. Such a duration without accurate environmental measurements would significantly impair the ability to ensure the safe guidance of vessels. In this project, we are trying to predict the environment measurements of the buoy which is under maintenance using the values of other active operational buoy so that the authorities could allow the safe passage of vessels.

Predicting the values of one buoy using the parameters of another buoy. In this project, we are using the dataset of Mouth of Placentia Bay Buoy, Pilot Boarding Station / Red Island Shoal Buoy, Placentia Bay: Ragged Islands – KLUMI( Land station) which are located in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Datasets

Mouth of Placentia Bay Buoy

Pilot Boarding Station / Red Island Shoal Buoy

Placentia Bay: Ragged Islands – KLUMI( Land station)

The dataset available here is till April 19, 2021. You can get the latest dataset from smartatlantic.

Download Instructions

Data Dictionary

Visual Representation of data

Buoy Location

You can find the instructions to clean the dataset, merging of files and training the ML models from the below link:

Instructions for Cleaning/Merging/Training

We have implemented the code on IBM Watson Cloud and encourage you to use this to get the experience of Cloud. Below link will provide you the instrcutions for using the IBM Watson Cloud. The Lite version of this cloud is free and provide you 25GB storage which is enough for this project.

Instructions for using IBM Watson Cloud

We have created notebooks with the code for your reference in the below link.

Links for Notebooks

REFERENCES

A MACHINE LEARNING REDUNDANCY MODEL FOR THE HERRING COVE SMART BUOY