Detrimental Starfish Detection on Embedded System: A Case Study of YOLOv5 Deep Learning Algorithm and TensorFlow Lite framework

There is a great range of spectacular coral reefs in the ocean world. Unfortunately, they are in jeopardy, due to an overabundance of one specific starfish called the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (or COTS). This article provides research to deliver innovation in COTS control. Using a deep learning model based on the You Only Look Once version 5 (YOLOv5) deep learning algorithm on an embedded device for COTS detection. It aids professionals in optimizing their time, resources, and enhances efficiency for the preservation of coral reefs worldwide. As a result, the performance over the algorithm was outstanding with Precision: 0.93 - Recall: 0.77 - F1score: 0.84.