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June 15, 2024

NWSD goes open source

Neptune opens the NWSD model (Neptune Water Surface Detection) to the community — a step forward for transparent, collaborative research in coastal safety.

NWSD open source release by Neptune

Example of NWSD segmentation outputs

NWSD: open, documented and ready for contribution

Today the Neptune team is proud to announce that NWSD (Neptune Water Surface Detection) is now available as open source. NWSD is a lightweight segmentation model trained to robustly identify the water surface in coastal imagery under varying lighting and sea conditions.

By publishing the code and trained weights, we aim to accelerate research and practical deployments where reliable water detection is required: beach safety, shoreline monitoring, environmental studies and more.

What’s included

  • Model architecture and training scripts
  • Pre-trained weights and sample inference code
  • Evaluation scripts and benchmark dataset details
  • Guidelines for fine-tuning on custom coastal imagery

How to get started

Visit the GitHub repository linked below. You’ll find installation instructions, a quick-start notebook for inference, and contribution guidelines. We welcome issues, pull requests and collaboration from researchers and practitioners.

"Open-sourcing NWSD allows the community to validate, reproduce and improve the model — a key step toward safer, more transparent coastal monitoring solutions."

If you use NWSD in your work, please consider citing the repository and sharing feedback so we can continue improving the project.

GitHub repository

NWSD on GitHub