# Caribbean marine life Identification and Measurement in Underwater Environments **URL:** \ **Category:** 🤝 Community Help\ **Tags:** research\ **Created:** [December 13, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/caribbean-marine-life-identification-and-measurement-in-underwater-environments/11598 "2025-12-13T17:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CRigano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@CRigano](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/CRigano)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/caribbean-marine-life-identification-and-measurement-in-underwater-environments/11598/1 "2025-12-13T17:19:15Z")
- **Project Type: Research** - **Operating System & Browser: Roboflex, Google Collab** \*,\* **and Google Drive** - **Project Universe Link or Workspace/Project ID: TBD** - Trying to develop a model for Caribbean marine life Identification and Measurement in Underwater Environments. This model would take both image and video. - NOAA Dataset unavailable, WHOI dataset just ID everything as fish. - New To Robflex with a common understanding of Object detection and Neural Networks. - I would greatly appreciate anything to get me started. To include bounding box identification. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Haiby](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/guy_haiby/32/8768_2.png) [@Guy\_Haiby](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Guy_Haiby)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/caribbean-marine-life-identification-and-measurement-in-underwater-environments/11598/2 "2025-12-15T02:45:35Z")
Depending on how you want to classify the animals, you would need to find or create your own dataset with your ideal classes and rules for classification. Then I would suggest starting by training RF-DETR on your dataset and see how it performs. You can also try the new SAM3 model from meta on their playground, which is a larger model that might have some of the capabilities you are looking for out of the box. ---
**Author:** ![CRigano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@CRigano](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/CRigano)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/caribbean-marine-life-identification-and-measurement-in-underwater-environments/11598/3 "2025-12-15T19:16:01Z")
Appreciate that! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/1X/bb6edbfa56d0cf2ee603f061e9e09103502cc8cc.png) [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/caribbean-marine-life-identification-and-measurement-in-underwater-environments/11598/4 "2025-12-22T19:16:20Z")
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