Abstract:
Coral reefs are vital for marine biodiversity but are increasingly endangered by climate change, pollution, and human activities. Therefore, monitoring these habitats is critical for conservation, yet conventional survey methods are time-consuming and lack stability. This study addresses these difficulties by evaluating the performance of recent YOLO (You Only Look Once) object detection modelsYOLOv8 through YOLOv12for automatic coral species detection in underwater imagery. The project utilizes 646 annotated underwater images containing six coral species from the SCoralDet dataset, originally developed by the Coral Germplasm Conservation and Breeding Center at Hainan Tropical Ocean University, China. The dataset was pre-annotated and preprocessed using Roboflow and used for training and evaluation with the Ultralytics YOLO framework in Python. Models were evaluated based on key performance metrics: mean Average Precision (mAP@50), precision, recall, and inference speed. Among the models, results show that YOLOv9 achieved the highest detection accuracy (mAP@50 = 81.6%), while YOLOv11 produced nearly comparable results (mAP@50 = 80.9%) with more consistent performance across evaluation metrics and faster inference. These findings illustrate the potential of recent YOLO models for precise, real-time detection of coral species and provide a comparative study that can inform future uses of deep learning in the monitoring of marine biodiversity
King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library
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BANGKOK
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library@kmutnb.ac.th
Created:
2025
Modified:
2026-03-06
Issued:
2026-03-06
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BibliograpyCitation :
In Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus. College of Computing. The 9th International Conference on Information Technology (InCIT 2025) (pp.605-610). Phuket : Prince of Songkla University