Blair Thornton

Blair Thornton

University of Southampton

H-index: 26

Europe-United Kingdom

About Blair Thornton

Blair Thornton, With an exceptional h-index of 26 and a recent h-index of 21 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Southampton, specializes in the field of Marine Robotics, Computer Vision, Laser Spectroscopy, Machine Learning.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Multirobot Multimodal Deep Sea Surveys: Use in Detailed Estimation of Manganese Crust Distribution

Report on the Marine Imaging Workshop 2022

Leveraging spatial metadata in machine learning for improved objective quantification of geological drill core

Improving coral monitoring by reducing variability and bias in cover estimates from seabed images

High-resolution visual seafloor mapping and classification using long range capable AUV for ship-free benthic surveys

Technologies for Ocean Sensing project developments in imaging and sensing

In Situ Measurement of Liquid and Gas CO2 with High Purity at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents in the Mariana Arc Using Raman Spectroscopy

RamaCam: autonomous in-situ monitoring system of marine particles by combining holography and Raman spectroscopy

Blair Thornton Information

University

Position

Professor of Marine Autonomy & IIS The University of Tokyo

Citations(all)

2325

Citations(since 2020)

1386

Cited By

1548

hIndex(all)

26

hIndex(since 2020)

21

i10Index(all)

48

i10Index(since 2020)

30

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Blair Thornton Skills & Research Interests

Marine Robotics

Computer Vision

Laser Spectroscopy

Machine Learning

Top articles of Blair Thornton

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Multirobot Multimodal Deep Sea Surveys: Use in Detailed Estimation of Manganese Crust Distribution

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Umesh Neettiyath

Harumi Sugimatsu

Tetsu Koike

Kazunori Nagano

Tamaki Ura

...

2024/2/1

Report on the Marine Imaging Workshop 2022

Research Ideas and Outcomes

Catherine Borremans

Jennifer Durden

Timm Schoening

Emma Curtis

Luther Adams

...

2024/3/18

Leveraging spatial metadata in machine learning for improved objective quantification of geological drill core

Earth and Space Science

Lewis JC Grant

Miquel Massot‐Campos

Rosalind M Coggon

Blair Thornton

Francesca C Rotondo

...

2024/3

Improving coral monitoring by reducing variability and bias in cover estimates from seabed images

Progress in Oceanography

Emma J Curtis

Jennifer M Durden

Brian J Bett

Veerle AI Huvenne

Nils Piechaud

...

2024/2/6

High-resolution visual seafloor mapping and classification using long range capable AUV for ship-free benthic surveys

Adrian Bodenmann

José Cappelletto

Miquel Massot-Campos

Darryl Newborough

Ed Chaney

...

2023/3/6

Technologies for Ocean Sensing project developments in imaging and sensing

Matthew Mowlem

Fillipa Carvalho

Rudolf Hanz

Ehsan Abdi

Camile Catalano

...

2023/6/5

In Situ Measurement of Liquid and Gas CO2 with High Purity at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents in the Mariana Arc Using Raman Spectroscopy

ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Tomoko Takahashi

Wataru Takahagi

Eiji Tasumi

Akiko Makabe

Koudai Taguchi

...

2023/12/1

RamaCam: autonomous in-situ monitoring system of marine particles by combining holography and Raman spectroscopy

Tomoko Takahashi

Zonghua Liu

Thangavel Thevar

Nicholas Burns

Mehul Sangekar

...

2023/3/6

Shallow Water Seagrass Survey at Studland Bay with the AUV Smarty200

Miquel Massot-Campos

Takaki Yamada

Bronwyn Walker-Rouse

Ken Collins

Julian Leyland

...

2023/3/6

Investigation of demersal fish using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Kichiji Rockfish, Sebastrobus macrochir (Günther, 1877), surveys and challenges

Journal of the Japan Society for Marine Surveys and Technology

Harumi Sugimatsu

Yuya Nishida

Sotaro Takashima

Kazunori Nagano

Shogo Inoue

...

2023/3/16

Underwater soft robotic open-loop control for disturbance rejection using stiffness and camber control.

Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Leo Micklem

Huazhi Dong

Francesco Giorgio-Serchi

Gabriel Weymouth

Blair Thornton

...

2023/11/20

Advanced subsea imaging technique of digital holography: in situ measurement of marine microscale plankton and particles

Zonghua Liu

Sarah Giering

Tomoko Takahashi

Thangavel Thevar

Marika Takeuchi

...

2023/3/6

Development of the Autonomous Core Sampling System for AUV

Shogo Inoue

Sotaro Takashima

Kazunori Nagano

Kotohiro Masuda

Satoru Taoka

...

2023/3/6

Assessing benthic marine habitats colonized with posidonia oceanica using autonomous marine robots and deep learning: A Eurofleets campaign

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Miquel Massot-Campos

Francisco Bonin-Font

Eric Guerrero-Font

Antoni Martorell-Torres

Miguel Martin Abadal

...

2023/9/30

Towards sensor agnostic artificial intelligence for underwater imagery

Miguel Massot Campos

Takaki Yamada

Blair Thornton

2023/3/6

Modelling our way out of a featureless correspondence problem for automatic calibration of laser stripe mapping systems

David Stanley

Adrian Bodenmann

Miquel Massot-Campos

Blair Thornton

2023/3/6

Seafloor Classification based on an AUV Based Sub-bottom Acoustic Probe Data for Mn-crust survey

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14861

Umesh Neettiyath

Harumi Sugimatsu

Blair Thornton

2023/9/26

Multimodal image and spectral feature learning for efficient analysis of water-suspended particles

Optics express

Tomoko Takahashi

Zonghua Liu

Thangavel Thevar

Nicholas Burns

Dhugal Lindsay

...

2023/2/27

Enhancing the Coverage of Underwater Robot Based Mn-crust Survey Area by Using a Multibeam Sonar

Umesh Neettiyath

Mehul Sangekar

Kazunori Nagano

Tetsu Koike

Blair Thornton

...

2023/3/6

Motion Control of an AUV Based on Disturbance Observer for Tidal Current Estimation

Ryo Miyakawa

Yuya Nishida

Blair Thornton

Kazuo Ishii

2023/9/25

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