In this paper, we release a new large-scale dataset containing multiple categories of ships and floating objects at sea, which we call MASS-LSVD. It is used to train and validate target detection algorithms and future large models for ship autopiloting. The dataset was captured by a visible light camera installed aboard the world’s first intelligent research, teaching, and training ship, “Xinhongzhuan”. This MASS (maritime aut...

Marine cold seeps are unique chemosynthetic habitats fuelled by deeply sourced hydrocarbon‐rich fluids discharged at the seafloor. Through oxidizing methane and other hydrocarbons, microorganisms inhabiting cold seeps supply subsurface‐derived energy to higher trophic levels, sustaining highly productive oases of life in the deep sea. Despite the central role of microbiota in mediating biogeochemical cycles, the factors that g...

Image data acquired by unmanned surface vehicle (USV) perception systems in hazy situations is characterized by low resolution and low contrast, which can seriously affect subsequent high-level vision tasks. To obtain high-definition images under maritime hazy conditions, an end-to-end multi-branch gated fusion network (MGFNet) is proposed. Firstly, residual channel attention, residual pixel attention, and residual spatial att...