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Cameron Trotter
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🇦🇶 ML Research Scientist @bas.ac.uk, applying computer vision to the Antarctic benthos
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#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!
October 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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🎉 ECR milestone achieved: My research has now been cited 100 times! 🎉
A screenshot of the Google scholar metrics for my profile, showing I have achieved 100 citations.
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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.
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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We

🪸Tackle key challenges in marine imagery: scarce annotations, variable object sizes, & complex seafloor terrain

📷 Combine resolution-preserving patching, spatial augmentation, & SAHI to detect 25 key morphotypes

❄️ Release the first CV dataset of Antarctic benthic organisms

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An overview diagram showing how our new framework works. We start by taking in large scale benthic images as input, splitting them into training, validation, and testing sets based on substrate, depth, and sea floor angle. Then we use SAHI to patch the high res images down to small image chunks. An object detection model is then trained using the patches. We perform some post processing, generating a large high-res image with detections as output.
July 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🇦🇶 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

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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.
July 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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And I’ve made it! About 14h from Newcastle to San Sebastián via London, Paris, and Hendaye, but that wasn’t much longer than flying (no direct) and *far* more environmentally friendly! Now to get some sleep ready for tomorrow!

Thanks to @seatsixtyone.bsky.social for providing my route!
A view of Amara station in San Sebastián at night. A map of Western Europe showing my journey. The red marker is Newcastle, and the blue circle is San Sebastián.
June 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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5h later and I’ve arrived in Hendaye/Hendaia on the 🇫🇷/🇪🇸 border! Now just a quick light rail to San Sebastián.
A view of the entrance to the light rail station in Hendaye. It’s a small black stone building with the words “Euskotren Hendaia” above the door. A view of the Euskotren to San Sebastián, at the station in Hendaia.
June 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Next, a very quick metro from Gare du Nord to Gare Montparnasse, ready to catch a TGV across France to Hendaye, on the French-Spanish border.
A view from the Eurostar platform at Gare du Nord after arriving in Paris. An image of Gare du Nord station, Hall 1. On the Mezzanine level above is a sign stating “Hall 2” with a Union Jack, and an arrow pointing left. Behind a group of people in the middle of the scene is a sign pointing down for the metro. Gare Montparnasse from the outside; a mixture of concrete and glass. Boarding the TGV train to Hendaye from Gare Montparnasse. The train is to the right of the image. Top left, an electronic board shows the route: Bordeaux Saint-Jean, Dax, Bayonne, Biarritz, Saint-Joan-de-Luz-Ciboure, and Hendaye.
June 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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A quick 2 minute walk over to St. Pancras, and onto the Eurostar to Paris!
An image of St. Pancras station in London, taken from outside of Kings Cross. In the foreground is a small road with many London black cabs. In the far left of the image, you can see St. Pancras clock tower. A photo from the door of my Eurostar train from London to Paris, looking down the train. The platform is empty, with the train ready to depart.
June 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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.
June 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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.
December 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM