expedition Expedition to Hannibal Seamount, Panama, 2015 In June 2015, we conducted an expedition to Hannibal Bank, a seamount and an ecological hotspot in the coastal eastern tropical Pacific Ocean off Panama, and explored the zonation, biodiversity,
Projects Interactive Exploration of Mission Data ROST can automatically characterize large image datasets, identify various scene components and detect context aware anomalies. These automatically annotated datasets can then be visualized using various techniques. Interactive mission visualizations
Projects Soundscape Characterization This work explores the problem of automatic discovery of different acoustic regions in the world, as experienced by a mobile robot. We use a temporally smoothed variant of Latent Dirichlet
exploration Curious Exploration Robots There is a need for autonomous exploration robots because vast majority of our oceans are unexplored, and direct human exploration of the deep sea is an expensive and extremely dangerous