I'm using computer vision algorithms (currently YOLO v8) to detect and segment coral fragments in images. The goal is to automate the analysis of coral area so that, no matter how big the coral restoration program gets in the future, managing the data won’t be a problem.

The other project I'm working on is an automated approach to analyzing images from a coral reef restoration project in the Gulf of Papagayo, Costa Rica. We take hundreds of pictures each month. These pictures contain structures called spiders with coral fragments.

Sure! suwo is designed for users that are searching/downloading media files from online repositories like Wikiaves and Inaturalist. The package allows users to search for a species from a repo and then it returns a metadata file with information linked to the media files of the species.

Hi, I'm Jorge!

I’m a fourth-year biology undergrad at UCR. Currently, I’m:
- developing suwo, an R package for obtaining ecological and observational data
- creating a tool to automatically measure coral growth using computer vision for the Lab for Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Reefs