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.