CoralLite
μCT reconstruction of coral colonies from individual corallites (ICPR CVBMC 2026).
This work, accepted at the CVBMC Workshop at ICPR 2026, presents CoralLite, an annotated μCT scan dataset of entire calcareous coral skeletons and a first corallite deep learning reconstruction baseline.
Key contributions:
- Combines fully quantified volumetric segmentations with cross-slice linking for 3D corallite visualisation up to colony scale.
- Proposes and evaluates a hybrid V-Trans-UNet architecture for segmenting tiled μCT virtual slabs of Porites sp. colonies.
- Publishes the full dataset of 697 μCT slices, 37 partial or full slice annotations, and all network weights and source code for reproducibility.
arXiv preprint: arXiv:2605.15093