Machine vision fused wth sonar to see through murky water
Even in the cloudiest conditions, the system was able to see through the sediment to map the tank’s environment and visualise centimetre-scale details of objects in the tank (Image: Amy Phung)
The Sonar-MASt3R system from MIT uses visual data to create real-time 3D maps of cloudy underwater environments

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