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FathomNet News

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Krill swarm underwater

Aug 11, 2025

FathomNet

Looking at the Bigger Picture: Results from FathomNet’s 2025 Kaggle Competition

Competition details, top-performing approaches, and how these results can advance visual ocean monitoring

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Jul 23, 2025

Frontiers in Marine Science

Assisting human annotation of marine images with foundation models

Eric C. Orenstein, Benjamin Woodward, Lonny Lundsten, Kevin Barnard, Brian Schlining, Kakani Katija

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Image of a deep-sea environment showing various forms of marine life and geological features, with multiple highlighted sections, indicating objects of interest.

Jun 19, 2025

FathomVerse

New object detector model trained on FathomVerse data

We recently deployed a new object detector model in FathomVerse. Object detector models predict where in the image an object of interest is located, without trying to classify it. This model is used for generating AI proposals in Bound.

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Apr 1, 2025

NOAA-NCEI

NCEI Collaborates with FathomVerse to Celebrate Citizen Science Month

This year, NCEI is pleased to collaborate with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) by featuring their FathomVerse mobile game.

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smartphone displaying FathomVerse app with white octopus. Underwater scene blurry in the background.

Mar 26, 2025

FathomVerse

FathomVerse Levels Up Ocean Exploration

New improvements to the mobile game enhance and expand community contributions to science.

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Blue jellyfish with long tentacles and oral arms

Mar 13, 2025

FathomNet

FathomNet Workshop 2025

April 9, 2025 - Register now!

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A woman sitting down and tapping on her iPhone to navigate the home screen of the FathomVerse game. A white cart and cabinet are in the background with numerous green houseplants and a pink salt lamp.

Mar 6, 2025

MBARI 2024 Annual Report

Inspiring a new wave of ocean explorers

FathomVerse mobile game aims to improve the artificial intelligence tools needed to study the ocean.

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networked squid drawing FathomNet logo. background blue jellyfish.

Mar 5, 2025

FathomNet

New Name, Same Mission

We are thrilled to introduce our new program name: FathomNet

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Promotional image for the 2025 FathomNet Kaggle Competition, featuring a deep sea scene with various marine animals, including a visible octopus and shrimp, surrounded by pink urchins.

Mar 4, 2025

Kaggle

Navigating the Depths – New FathomNet Kaggle competition is live!

Join the FathomNet Kaggle Competition to show us how you would develop a model that can accurately classify varying taxonomic ranks.

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Nov 20, 2024

WILDLABS

FathomVerse: Gaming for the Good of the Ocean

Dive into meaningful play with FathomVerse!

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Sea nettle in the ocean with a bounding box around it

Oct 11, 2024

UIST '24: Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

FathomGPT: A Natural Language Interface for Interactively Exploring Ocean Science Data

Nabin Khanal, Chun Meng Yu, Jui-Cheng Chiu, Anav Chaudhary, Ziyue Zhang, Kakani Katija, Angus G. Forbes

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Sep 18, 2024

FathomNet

Express your Interest to become a Portal Early Adopter

Call for Collaborators September 2024: We seek early adopters to collaborate with us by testing and providing feedback on the Portal. Please fill out this form to share your interest and use case details.

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