Matteo Contini

Researcher in marine ecosystem monitoring and AI

Recently completed a PhD focused on multi-scale mapping of changes in tropical reefs at IFREMER (DOI) and INRIA (IROKO Pl@ntNet team), based in La Réunion. I am particularly interested in applying artificial intelligence to environmental monitoring, biodiversity conservation and large-scale ecosystem analysis. I welcome collaborations and research opportunities in these domains.

More information about my projects can be found on the SEATIZEN monitoring website: seatizenmonitoring.ifremer.re.

News

10/26

Started a postdoctoral research position at NIBIO, focusing on AI for biodiversity monitoring.

07/26

📣 Reproducible mapping of marine biodiversity using autonomous surface vehicles and deep learning , published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

05/26

Talk at QUT Centre for Robotics (organizer: Scarlett Raine).

05/26

📣 A drone-based framework for coral habitat mapping via weakly supervised segmentation , published in Pattern Analysis and Applications.

02/26

Talk at CSIRO (organizer: Fabio Boschetti).

12/25

🎖️ Recipient of the 2025 Open Science Data Award (Team Award).

11/25

Talk at MARBEC (organizer: David Mouillot).

11/25

📜 Officially defended my PhD, Multiscale mapping of changes in tropical reefs .

11/25

📣 From underwater to drone: A novel multi-scale knowledge distillation approach for coral reef monitoring , published in Ecological Informatics.

10/25

Oral presentation at the Joint Workshop on Marine Vision (ICCV).

09/25

📜 Obtained the CAH1B professional diving certification, allowing professional dives down to 30 m.

07/25

📣 An autonomous surface vehicle for acoustic tracking, bathymetric and photogrammetric surveys , published in Ocean Engineering.

05/25

📜 Obtained the French coastal powerboat license.

02/25

📰 Featured by TV5MONDE in a report on the use of AI for coral reef monitoring in Réunion Island .

01/25

📣 Seatizen Atlas: a collaborative dataset of underwater and aerial marine imagery , published in Scientific Data.

12/24

Oral presentation at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting (BES).

09/24

📰 Article by Océans Connectés on artificial intelligence and tropical reefs .

07/24

Participated in the DeepLearn Summer School, International School on Deep Learning, in Porto, Portugal.

06/24

Oral presentation at the European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB).

11/23

📜 Obtained the French DGAC drone pilot certificate.

10/23

📰 Featured in an ARTE documentary on the Indian Ocean mission, scientific exploration and marine conservation .

07/23

🎖️ Recipient of the 2023 EuroMarine Young Scientist Fellowship Programme .

06/23

📣 GeoAI for Marine Ecosystem Monitoring: a Complete Workflow to Generate Maps from AI Model Predictions , conference paper published in the ISPRS Archives.

06/23

📰 Magazine appearance in Outre-mer grandeur Nature (page 31).

05/23

Oral presentation at the Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping conference (GEOHAB).

05/23

🎖️ Recipient of the 2023 GeoHab Ron McDowell Student Award .

03/23

📰 Presented preliminary results from the B4Sea team at Monaco Ocean Week .

10/22

Participated in the 2-month Monaco Explorations Indian Ocean Expedition .

10/22

Official start of the PhD.