1. Azione 1.2.2 “Ricerca industriale e sviluppo sperimentale a favore delle imprese del Distretto Ligure per le Tecnologie Marine (D.L.T.M)” GUARD-1 Autonomous system for the acquisition and recognition of high resolution underwater images Stand-alone device integrating: image acquisition hardware module acquires and stores images pattern recognition software module recognizes the jellies inside an image (if any) On dvanced ndustrial esearch

2. GUARD-1 for monitoring gelatinous zooplankton Low cost, low power autonomous system for image acquisition and recognition To be installed on autonomous vehicles, such as Argo, Glider To be used for real-time detection of jellies within images  Stand-alone system  Long lasting missions  Low cost

3. Underwater image acquisition and recognition Problems dealing with jellies: huge variety of species and shapes non-rigid shape almost transparent body difficult lighting conditions It is very difficult to identify the features that discriminate the jellies from other subjects

4. Automatic recognition algorithms Supervised statistical learning (Viola & Jones) no a priori knowledge about shapes is needed Block Detection & Shape Analysis) shape detected and recognised by pre-defined rules