Marine Video Cloud: A Cloud-Based Video Analytics Platform for Collaborative Marine Research

With the increasing attention and corresponding developments of data collection of underwater surveying/diving videos, a large number of underwater videos have been yielded for different purposes. However, it is time-consuming and requires the corresponding expertise to yield a hierarchical and comprehensive biological analysis report based on the collected underwater videos. The development of the underwater video analysis platform is an emergency and users of such a platform should not be limited to some specific groups (e.g., biological experts). The existing VIAME provides an intelligent solution for fishery and marine organism analysis with an installable platform. Differently, in this paper, we develop a novel cloud-based underwater video analysis platform, which focuses on more diverse marine species such as coral reefs and sea urchins. The proposed platform could provide hierarchical and comprehensive services for a wider user group. We aim to build a one-stop platform, which could allow every user to upload their surveying or diving videos and build a centralized database for more robust and accurate data analysis.