A Deep Learning Approach for Underwater Bubble Detection

This paper presents a deep learning approach to detect underwater bubbles, coming from the seafloor, at different locations. The You Only Look Once (YOLO) framework has been used, modified and adapted for bubble detection. Training has been performed on images from the location of interest in Vulcano, Italy and on other images found on internet. The model was then trained on a Tesla T4 GPU by Google Colaboratory. The trained model has produced encouraging results that can be used for real-time bubble detection.