arxivcs.CV2026-07-12
Why Domain Matters: Domain-Aware Benchmarking of Underwater Object Detection and Annotation Quality
Melanie Wille, Dimity Miller, Tobias Fischer, Scarlett Raine
Underwater object detection is strongly affected by domain shift, where performance can vary significantly across different locations, habitats, and deployment conditions. However, detector performance is typically evaluated using aggregate metrics that hide failures in specific…