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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Next week I'll be in Glasgow for the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026, presenting our work on understanding the current state of Southern Ocean benthic ecosystems using computer vision. Please come and chat if you're interested! 🗓️ Friday 27th February, 14:00-15:30 🏠 Hall 4, eLightning Theatre 2

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Only a few days left to sign up for our Computer Vision Training for Marine Ecologists workshop, happening in-person at @bas.ac.uk in March. Don't miss out!

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🌊 Computer Vision Training for Marine Ecologists 🗓️ 10-11/3/26 🏠 @bas.ac.uk 2-day workshop on applying computer vision to marine research. No ML experience needed! Covers data processing, analyses, & interpreting outputs. 📅 Deadline: 30/1/26, 5pm (UK) 🔗 Apply: sams-tom.github.io/marine-works...

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Bridging the Skills Gap: Computer Vision Workshop

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

COME WORK WITH ME!!! Very exciting open faculty position at MIT, with ecosystem and biodiversity modeling as a focus! cee.mit.edu/people/share...

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The academic starter pack.

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

#ICCV25 was a blast! Presented my work on automating Southern Ocean benthic monitoring at the Marine Vision workshop & joined the AI for Conservation bird walk. I loved seeing my Northumberland Dolphin Dataset still used for benchmarking segmentation models! Lots of collab ahead! 📄 bit.ly/4qItEdQ

A photo of me (left of the image) standing at a lectern giving my talk. My title slide is to the right of me, entitled “Automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms in high resolution in situ imagery to aid biodiversity monitoring”.

Me (right) next to my massive poster (left). The poster introduces my research.

An image of another talk during the main conference showing the use of my Northumberland Dolphin Dataset as a benchmark for segmentation foundation models.

A view of the poster hall with ice cream freezers in front!

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Humphrey Shi @humphreyshi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The CVPR 2026 Workshop Proposal site is now live on OpenReview! 🎉 Submit your ideas and help shape the future of computer vision and AI: openreview.net/group?id=the... @cvprconference.bsky.social

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CVPR 2026 Workshop Proposals

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for CVPR 2026 Workshop Proposals

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Badass birders braving the rain this morning!! We got soaked, saw cool birds, and got a beautiful rainbow as a reward 🌈

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 20/10/2025

🌟 ‘Automated Detection of Antarctic Benthic Organisms to Aid Biodiversity Monitoring’ is by Cameron Trotter, Huw Griffiths, Tasnuva Ming Khan + Rowan Whittle. It was published at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision, at the International Conference on Computer Vision ⬇️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

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Artificial Intelligence supercharges science on the Antarctic seafloor - British Antarctic Survey

Using the latest AI technology, scientists have dramatically sped up the process of detecting animals found in photographs and video taken of the seafloor.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 20/10/2025

📣 Dr @camerontrotter.bsky.social explains: "The images are packed full of weird and unusually shaped animals, often living on top of each other - some of which have never been seen before." The team trained AI to identify seafloor creatures near Antarctica, like starfish, corals, and fish. 🧵 2/4

Image 2 is a slightly more busy image of the sea floor. You can easily see there's a variety of shelled creatures and corals.

Image two is labeled and shows that there's over 100 creatures in the shot.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 20/10/2025

Supercharged seafloor spotting! 🐚 Our AI and science teams have been using machine learning to label surveys of the Antarctic seafloor. It's dramatically sped them up from <8 hours per photo, to a few seconds. This one looks like a quick job. But stay with us as we up the difficulty... 🧵 1/4

Image 1 is a pretty empty image of the Antarctic Sea floor. There's visibly a few large starfish in bright pink.

In the annotated version of image 1, there's around 15 creatures labelled, including some tiny shells scattered across the floor.

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Annie Roth @annieroth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s... An unknown sea otter was spotted stealing surfboards at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz this week. Is 841 back to her old ways or have other otters learned to hang 10? Check out my latest for @nytimes.com

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Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Are you coming to @iccv.bsky.social?? Do you like BIRDS?!?! The #CVBirdWalk is happening!!! Oct. 21, 7am, Ala Moana Park. Kick off your conference right!! #ICCV2025 #AIforConservation

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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026? My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate. For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website: homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Heading to Honolulu for #ICCV? 🌺 Ease into the week with my talk on automating detection of seafloor organisms around Antarctica for biodiversity monitoring! 🐙 Catch it at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision, Oct 19, Room 318B, 09:50–10:20. 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665

Figure 2 from the linked paper, showing our methodology workflow. We take the seafloor training imagery and split it based on substrate, depth, and seafloor angle. This is then patched down and processed using SAHI, which allows us to train an object detection model on a patch-level, retaining resolution. We then postprocess the detections, reprojecting them back to their location on the original image.

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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 15/10/2025

Welcome to #Plymouth, @bas.ac.uk 🌊 The #RRSDavidAttenborough arrived here safe and sound yesterday, and we're excited to share our team will be heading on board later today. Stay tuned for updates! 📹 Filmed by PML's Jani Pewter, from our lab roof! #BoatyMcBoatface #PolarScience #MarineScience

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🎉 ECR milestone achieved: My research has now been cited 100 times! 🎉

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Great time at this year’s NERC Digital Gathering, chatting with colleagues from across NERC-funded centres and sharing ideas about the role of emerging technologies in environmental science. Lots of interesting discussion from my talk on Southern Ocean benthic image analysis using computer vision!

A photo showing myself (top-left) standing in front of a room of people (4 in shot) giving a talk. I am standing next to a presentation slide (top-right) displaying 4 QR codes directing to our research paper, code, dataset, and guide.

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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Congratulations to everyone who got their @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers accepted 🎉🎉🎉 At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🇦🇶 Our new paper detailing the automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms using high-res in situ imagery has been accepted to the #ICCV2025 Joint Workshop on Marine Vision! 📄 Read the preprint now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.21665 🧵1/4

An example output from our framework. An image of the Antarctic seafloor, with hundreds of organisms on it. The organisms each have a bounding box around them, a class label, and a confidence score produced by our framework.

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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

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Malte Pedersen @maltep.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Join us at the Joint Workshop for Marine Vision at #ICCV25 We have full-paper and nectar tracks. Accepted papers are included in the official ICCV workshop proceedings. Submission deadline: June 30 More at: vap.aau.dk/marinevision/ @iccv.bsky.social @jbhaurum.bsky.social @justin-kay.bsky.social

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Lucien Hinderling @lhinderling.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features! github.com/burghoff/Sci...

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Heading to San Sebastián 🇪🇸 for the @azti.bsky.social #SummerSchool25 the low-carbon way! Looking forward to seeing how others are using AI in the benthos, similar to my work @bas.ac.uk. First leg: Newcastle to London Kings Cross

A picture from a moving train of the river Tyne and the bridges. The train is crossing the river, also over a bridge.

An image of my train, after pulling into London Kings Cross.

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Pioneer Centre for AI @aicentre.dk · 23/05/2025

We invite submissions to the #ICCV Joint Workshop on Marine Vision dedicated to advancing computer vision for monitoring and assessing marine environments through underwater imagery and related technologies. ⏰ Deadline June 30 📣Notification July 11 📷Camera ready Aug 8 🏆Best paper award-$1,000

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6th Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI)

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Come hear me chat about my work building an AI assistant for Southern Ocean biodiversity monitoring @bas.ac.uk! I promise there will be lots of pictures of sea critters 🪸🦑🦀

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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A spectacular and emotional experience leaving #SouthGeorgia and passing through a group of around 500 #humpback #whales. They were everywhere! #biopole2 #marninebiology #cetaceans #Antarctic @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 29/01/2025

BAS Scientists are not only found in Antarctica, they also appear on bookshelves! 📖 Here is a selection of children’s books that feature the expertise of BAS scientists ⬇️

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We are still recruiting Brazilian experts in species ID at Pivotal. It's remote flexible work so a really handy side gig. If you can identify Brazilian plants or mammals from photos, of frogs, bats or birds from audio, please apply! 🧪 www.researchgate.net/job/1018369_...

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REMOTE ROLE FOR ECOLOGISTS, NATURALISTS, AND TAXONOMIC EXPERTS at Pivotal Future in London, UNITED KINGDOM

Jan 2, 2025 | Ecologists, Naturalists, and Taxonomic Experts ‍ Can you identify birds, bats or frogs from acoustic data? Or can you identify plants,... | EXPIRES IN 4 DAYS

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🚨 New paper 🚨 Benthic ecologist curious about using computer vision? 🤖 Computer scientist wondering how to help protect benthic biodiversity? 🦀 Our latest review bridges the gap between these fields! Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Surveying the deep: A review of computer vision in the benthos

The analysis of image data for benthic biodiversity monitoring is now commonplace within the domain of marine ecology. Whilst advances in imaging tech…

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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh? If so, check out the ML-Systems PhD Programme: mlsystems.uk Application deadline is 22nd January (next week).

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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The Antarctic Environments Portal has published a new summary & infographic on marine non-native species (NNMS) in Antarctica, exploring pathways, risks, and climate impacts. Key threats: ship biofouling and ballast water. Prevention is critical. 🌊 Full article: doi.org/10.48361/KTP...

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Kate Jones 🦇 @profkatej.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Awesome opportunity! Please RT for potential PhD students on our new AI & Biodiversity PhD Programme

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Simon Rolph @simon-rolph.com · 18/12/2024

✨PhD opportunity! Citizen science is vital for biodiversity monitoring. Could we use AI to support citizen scientists and improve data quality? Help us find out in this PhD with myself and Tom August based at @ukceh.bsky.social Apply 27th Jan www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Advancing Volunteer-Led Biodiversity Monitoring with Generative AI and Data Science at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Advancing Volunteer-Led Biodiversity Monitoring with Generative AI and Data Science at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

17-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of: • early death • hospitalisation for any reason • cardiovascular disease • cancer mortality • treatment for mental health problems. Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 06/12/2024

It's time for the penguin weigh-in! 🐧 These three macaroni penguins from the 'Little Mac' colony on Bird Island near Antarctica are off to forage at sea to feed their new chicks. We use an automated weighbridge to monitor their weight and foraging patterns! 🪶 THE SOUND OF THEIR LITTLE FEET 😭

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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Do we think the UKRI/NERC Comms team can count this as long-term impact?!

Beer pump at a bar. The label reads Oaty McOatface. Oatmeal Stout 4.8%

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Peter T Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

At the start of the emperor penguin chick fledging season five colonies have already been affected by early sea ice breakup. The purple dots below show which ones. Not as bad as the last two years, but worse than average.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 09/12/2024

Climate data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows, it is virtual certainty that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year above 1.5°C. This does not mean the Paris Agreement has been breached, it means ambitious #climateaction is more urgent than ever 🧪⚒️🌏🌡️📈

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Dr Rowan Whittle @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

PhD Opportunity: 'Eocene sea-floor ecosystem structure in response to environmental change'. Student will be based at British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), with Bristol University. Project and contact details: www.bas.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Deadline 13th January www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/apply

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Cameron Trotter @camerontrotter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Is there anything more isolating than getting a code error, googling it, and the only relevant result being a GitHub issue you raised 6 months ago about the same error with 0 replies…

Pablo Escobar on a garden swing looking very sad and alone. From Netflix’s Narcos.

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James Witts @jdwitts.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🚨 PhD opportunity @bas.ac.uk with Rowan Whittle, @sauravdutta.bsky.social (BAS), Dani Schmidt (Bristol), @dralexdunhill.bsky.social (Leeds) & me! Interested in marine palaeoecology & links to climate in the Eocene of #Antarctica? Get in touch for more info. 🧪⚒️ www.bas.ac.uk/science/scie...

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Student Training and PhD Opportunities - British Antarctic Survey

NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships and projects

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Applications for the 2025 Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society Scholarships and Internships are now open! For more information, visit owuscholarship.org Complete applications must be submitted no later than January 31, 2025, at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time.

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Home | OUR WORLD-UNDERWATER SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY™

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Andrea Zampetti @andrewzampetti.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Can AI improve #cameratrap studies? Our study in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social shows how #machinelearning can enhance wildlife surveys by automating species detection & classification and enabling unbiased density estimates 📷🦌. Check it out! ⬇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🧨 Systematic reviews are in peril ! AI will be soon (if not already) massively be used to generate tons of fake and/or replicated papers; this wave will becomes a tsunami 🌊 ... There really is a need for falsification/copy control in science now! 🧪🌐🌍🦤 www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril

Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

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