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Ensuring maritime safety and optimizing traffic management in increasingly crowded and complex waterways require effective waterway monitoring. However, current methods struggle with challenges arising from multimodal data, such as…
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into automation systems has the potential to enhance efficiency and to address currently unsolved existing technical challenges. However, the industry-wide adoption of AI is hindered by the…
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Urban traffic state estimation is pivotal in furnishing precise and reliable insights into traffic flow characteristics, thereby enabling efficient traffic management. Traditional traffic estimation methodologies have predominantly hinged…
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We propose a novel filter for sparse big data, called an integrated autoencoder (IAE), which utilizes auxiliary information to mitigate data sparsity. The proposed model achieves an appropriate balance between prediction accuracy,…
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This paper introduces a unified analytical and optimization framework for fluid antenna system-active reconfigurable intelligent surface (FAS-ARIS) communications in 6G. By combining the port reconfigurability of FAS with the signal…
In order to improve the vessel's capacity and ensure maritime traffic safety, vessel intelligent trajectory prediction plays an essential role in the vessel's smart navigation and intelligent collision avoidance system. However, current…