DeepPIV 3DR - Dinner plate jelly (Solmissus sp.)

3D Model

This dinner plate jelly (Solmissus sp.) was live-scanned at 503 meters deep off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, using MBARI’s laser-based scanning instrument DeepPIV mounted to ROV SuBastian. This data was collected during the “Designing the Future” expedition aboard R/V Falkor, operated by Schmidt Ocean Institute. This expedition was a collaborative effort of scientists and engineers from the University of Rhode Island, Harvard University, and the City University of New York, and MBARI’s Bioinspiration Lab.

The DeepPIV camera records a laser-illuminated slice in each frame. Images were then segmented and models generated using custom MATLAB software. The monochromatic image data is used to create a 3D reconstruction, which is colorized based on ROV 4K video.