SMART Lab

College of Marine Living Resource Sciences and Management

Shanghai Ocean University

999 Huchenghuan Road

Pudong New District, Shanghai 201306, China

Welcome to the SMART Lab at Shanghai Ocean University.

Our mission is to advance the sustainable management of marine resources through innovative Survey, Monitoring, and Acoustic Research Technology.

We specialize in developing and applying cutting-edge acoustic methods to understand the underwater world. From assessing fish stocks with echosounders to monitoring marine mammals like the Yangtze Finless Porpoise, we combine biology, physics, and engineering to solve critical ecological challenges.

Our Research Focus

Fisheries Acoustics: Precision assessment of fish biomass and distribution.
Marine Bioacoustics: Deciphering the sounds of marine life and their behavior.
Intelligent Monitoring: Utilizing AI (e.g., YOLO) and deep learning for automated underwater object detection.
Survey Technology: Designing next-generation survey protocols and instrumentation.

We are dedicated to bridging the gap between acoustic technology and marine conservation.

news

Mar 02, 2026	GAI-YOLOv8: Precision-Oriented Fish Detection Algorithm for Sonar-Based Conservation Monitoring
Feb 26, 2026	SMART Lab Advances Coral Reef Monitoring with Machine Learning-Enhanced Ecoacoustic Indices
Jan 20, 2026	EchoSMs v0.17.0 Released with New Shape Viewer
Nov 17, 2024	SMART Lab Showcases Innovations at 2024 Pelagic Fishery Tech Conference
May 05, 2024	Listen to the 'Smiling Angel': Recording Yangtze Finless Porpoises in the Yangtze Estuary

latest posts

Jan 22, 2026	Tutorial: Visualizing Porpoise Clicks (Waveform & Spectrogram)

selected publications

Underwater Acoustic Technologies for Sustainable Fisheries

Jianfeng Tong, Y. Tang, and T. Mukai

Fishes, 2025

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Worldwide soundscapes: a synthesis of passive acoustic monitoring across realms

Kevin F. A. Darras, Rodney A. Rountree, Steven L. Van Wilgenburg ... Jianfeng Tong , and 250 more authors

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2025

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Assessing the influence of abiotic factors on small pelagic fish distribution across diverse water layers in the Northwest Pacific Ocean through acoustic methods

Z. Zhu, Jianfeng Tong, M. Xue , and 2 more authors

Ecological Indicators, 2024

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Automatic single fish detection with a commercial echosounder using YOLO v5 and its application for echosounder calibration

Jianfeng Tong, W. Wang, M. Xue , and 2 more authors

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023

DOI Bib

@article{tong2023automatic,
  title = {Automatic single fish detection with a commercial echosounder using YOLO v5 and its application for echosounder calibration},
  author = {Tong, Jianfeng and Wang, W. and Xue, M. and Zhu, Z. Han, J. and Tian, S.},
  journal = {Frontiers in Marine Science},
  volume = {10},
  pages = {1162064},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Frontiers},
  doi = {10.3389/fmars.2023.1162064},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1162064},
}