Wei Song^1,2,3, Lihui Dong¹, Xiaobing Zhao^1,3, Jianxin Xia^4,*, Tongmu Liu⁵, Yuxi Shi⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1649-1669, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027214 - 18 May 2022

Abstract A large number of nodule minerals exist in the deep sea. Based on the factors of difficulty in shooting, high economic cost and high accuracy of resource assessment, large-scale planned commercial mining has not yet been conducted. Only experimental mining has been carried out in areas with high mineral density and obvious benefits after mineral resource assessment. As an efficient method for deep-sea mineral resource assessment, the deep towing system is equipped with a visual system for mineral resource analysis using collected images and videos, which has become a key component of resource assessment. Therefore,… More >

Wei Song^1,2,3, Haolin Wang¹, Xinping Zhang¹, Jianxin Xia^4,*, Tongmu Liu⁵, Yuxi Shi⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1449-1462, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027213 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Deep-sea mineral image segmentation plays an important role in deep-sea mining and underwater mineral resource monitoring and evaluation. The application of artificial intelligence technology to deep-sea mining projects can effectively improve the quality and efficiency of mining. The existing deep learning-based underwater image segmentation algorithms have problems such as the accuracy rate is not high enough and the running time is slightly longer. In order to improve the segmentation performance of underwater mineral images, this paper uses the Pix2PixHD (Pixel to Pixel High Definition) algorithm based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) to segment deep-sea… More >