Water Tank Marine Debris with ARIS Explorer 3000

Marine Debris dataset captured at the Ocean Systems Lab Water Tank (Heriot-Watt University), using a ARIS Explorer 3000 Forward-Looking Sonar at 3.0 MHz frequency.

Classes included are: bottle, can, chain, drink carton, hook, propeller, shampoo bottle, standing bottle, tire, and valve. Bounding boxes are annotated in all images, with annotations stored in a JSON file.

Full sonar images projected in cartesian coordinates are available as PNG files. Image crops for each class are also included, which can be easily used with keras' ImageDataGenerator or other frameworks. These crops vary with size, so they need to be normalized before training a model with them.