University of Michigan Field Robotics Group

Our research spans robotics, computer vision, and machine learning with a focus on enabling autonomy in dynamic, unstructured, or remote environments across field robotics applications.

This website accompanies the “Machine Learning for Shipwreck Segmentation from Side Scan Sonar Imagery: Dataset and Benchmark” paper by Advaith V. Sethuraman, Anja Sheppard, Onur Bagoren, Christopher Pinnow, Jamey Anderson, Timothy C. Havens, and Katherine A. Skinner. Find the dataset download link here.

This work is supported by the NOAA Ocean Exploration Program under award #NA21OAR0110196.

Please visit the “Overview” tab for more details about the dataset as well as corrections from the paper.

Please cite our dataset as:

@article{sethuraman2025machine,
    title={Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark},
    author={Sethuraman, Advaith V and Sheppard, Anja and Bagoren, Onur and Pinnow, Christopher and Anderson, Jamey and Havens, Timothy C and Skinner, Katherine A},
    journal={The International Journal of Robotics Research},
    volume={44},
    number={3},
    pages={341--354},
    year={2025},
    publisher={SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England}
}