PhD Student Projects

Coral-CRCA: A Color-Reference Chart Automation algorithm for coral bleaching visualization and severity assessment

About the project

An algorithm that replicates the visual assessment process used by marine biologists to fully automate coral bleaching evaluation with color-reference charts. The method segments the coral, isolates CoralWatch quadrants, and assigns each coral pixel to the closest reference grade by color similarity, generating pixel-level bleaching visualizations and reporting bleaching percentage.