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Team 16

Team Members

Faculty Advisor

Arian Yemin
Benjamin Davis
Priya Rao
Kevin Liu

Tim Curry

Sponsor

United States Navy

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Underwater Multi-Label Classification under Optical Degradation

Our project develops a multi-label image classification system to address the poor optical conditions encountered during underwater visual inspections. Manual inspections are dangerous and costly, and are further compromised by turbidity, blur, low light, and sensor noise. To mitigate these risks, we trained and benchmarked four deep learning classification models for use on autonomous underwater vehicles, complemented by interpretability features including Grad-CAM heatmaps. We address domain generalization by training models on artificially degraded data, producing a system capable of reliably labeling anomalies under both ideal ("clean") and degraded ("blurred") conditions.