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The visible-light camera, which is capable of environment perception and navigation assistance, has emerged as an essential imaging sensor for marine surface vessels in intelligent waterborne transportation systems (IWTS). However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ryan Wen Liu , Yuxu Lu , Yuan Gao , Yu Guo , Wenqi Ren , Fenghua Zhu , Fei-Yue Wang

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been extensively utilized in maritime domains due to its all-weather, all-day monitoring capabilities, particularly exhibiting significant value in ship detection. In recent years, deep learning methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Hecheng Jia , Feng Xu

Collision avoidance systems play a vital role in reducing the number of vehicle accidents and saving human lives. This paper extends the previous work using evolutionary neural networks for reactive collision avoidance. We are proposing a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Hesham M. Eraqi , Mena Nagiub , Peter Sidra

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of ships is an important part of maritime monitoring, allowing improved visualization, inspection, and decision-making in real-world monitoring environments. However, most state-ofthe-art 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Borja Carrillo-Perez , Felix Sattler , Angel Bueno Rodriguez , Maurice Stephan , Sarah Barnes

A new obstacle detection algorithm for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) is presented. A state-of-the-art graphical model for semantic segmentation is extended to incorporate boat pitch and roll measurements from the on-board inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Borja Bovcon , Rok Mandeljc , Janez Perš , Matej Kristan

Maritime surveillance (MS) is of paramount importance for search and rescue operations, fishery monitoring, pollution control, law enforcement, migration monitoring, and national security policies. Since ground-based radars and automatic…

Finding obstacle-free paths in unknown environments is a big navigation issue for visually impaired people and autonomous robots. Previous works focus on obstacle avoidance, however they do not have a general view of the environment they…

In this paper, we provide a survey on automotive surround-view fisheye optics, with an emphasis on the impact of optical artifacts on computer vision tasks in autonomous driving and ADAS. The automotive industry has advanced in applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Daniel Jakab , Brian Michael Deegan , Sushil Sharma , Eoin Martino Grua , Jonathan Horgan , Enda Ward , Pepijn Van De Ven , Anthony Scanlan , Ciarán Eising

Commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would benefit from an onboard ability to sense and avoid (SAA) potential mid-air collision threats. In this paper we present a new approach for detection of aircraft below the horizon.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Jasmin James , Jason J. Ford , Timothy L. Molloy

The recent and ongoing expansion of marine infrastructure, including offshore wind farms, oil and gas platforms, artificial islands, and aquaculture facilities, highlights the need for effective monitoring systems. The development of robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Robin Spanier , Thorsten Hoeser , Claudia Kuenzer

The use of synthetic (or simulated) data for training machine learning models has grown rapidly in recent years. Synthetic data can often be generated much faster and more cheaply than its real-world counterpart. One challenge of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Handi Yu , Simiao Ren , Leslie M. Collins , Jordan M. Malof

The success of deep learning in intelligent ship visual perception relies heavily on rich image data. However, dedicated datasets for inland waterway vessels remain scarce, limiting the adaptability of visual perception systems in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Shanshan Wang , Haixiang Xu , Hui Feng , Xiaoqian Wang , Pei Song , Sijie Liu , Jianhua He

Landing safely in crowded urban environments remains an essential yet challenging endeavor for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), especially in emergency situations. In this work, we propose a risk-aware approach that harnesses semantic…

The use of computer vision in automotive is a trending research in which safety and security are a primary concern. In particular, for autonomous driving, preventing road accidents requires highly accurate object detection under diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Md Shahi Amran Hossain , Abu Shad Ahammed , Sayeri Mukherjee , Roman Obermaisser

Marine vessel re-identification technology is an important component of intelligent shipping systems and an important part of the visual perception tasks required for marine surveillance. However, unlike the situation on land, the maritime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Guangmiao Zeng , Wanneng Yu , Rongjie Wang , Anhui Lin

Traffic sign recognition is a well-researched problem in computer vision. However, the state of the art methods works only for frequent sign classes, which are well represented in training datasets. We consider the task of rare traffic sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Anton Konushin , Boris Faizov , Vlad Shakhuro

The proliferation of generative video technologies has intensified the need for reliable methods to detect and characterize synthetic media. To address this challenge, we organized the \href{https://safe-video-2025.dsri.org}{SAFE: Synthetic…

Synthetic aperture imaging systems achieve constant azimuth resolution by coherently summating the observations acquired along the aperture path. At this aim, their locations have to be known with subwavelength accuracy. In underwater…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Salvatore Caporale , Yvan Petillot

Most deep models for underwater image enhancement resort to training on synthetic datasets based on underwater image formation models. Although promising performances have been achieved, they are still limited by two problems: (1) existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Zhengyong Wang , Liquan Shen , Mei Yu , Yufei Lin , Qiuyu Zhu

In the last few years, we have witnessed the rise of a series of deep learning methods to generate synthetic images that look extremely realistic. These techniques prove useful in the movie industry and for artistic purposes. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Sara Mandelli , Nicolò Bonettini , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro