LABUST has taken part in many scientific research projects relating to underwater systems and technologies in various roles. This includes numerous international (FP7, H2020, ONRG, INTERREG,...) as well as national projects.
We are proud to announce that members of LABUST were placed second on the Approximate Supervised Object Distance Estimation Challenge organized by the University of Tübingen, the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science and KLE Technological University. The challenge was to detect navigational buoys on the surface of water and correctly estimate their distance. LABUST had the best distance estimation and second best average precision and was placed second in the final combined evaluation metric.
Matej Fabijanić and Assistant Professor Fausto Ferreira, the authors of the winning method, will be featured as co-authors in the challenge results paper. The results of the method will also be featured in the Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) workshop at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025 held in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
More about the challenge: https://macvi.org/workshop/macvi25/challenges/usv_dist
More about the conference: https://wacv2025.thecvf.com/