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DL based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection has tremendous advantages in numerous areas. However, it still faces some problems, such as the lack of prior knowledge, which seriously affects detection accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Han Ke , Xiao Ke , Ye Yan , Rui Liu , Jinpeng Yang , Tianwen Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiaowo Xu

Maritime monitoring systems support safe shipping as they allow for the real-time detection of dangerous, suspicious and illegal vessel activities. We present such a system using the Run-Time Event Calculus, a composite event recognition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Manolis Pitsikalis , Alexander Artikis , Richard Dreo , Cyril Ray , Elena Camossi , Anne-Laure Jousselme

Recent advances in machine learning and hardware have produced embedded devices capable of performing real-time object detection with commendable accuracy. We consider a scenario in which embedded devices rely on an onboard object detector,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jiaming Qiu , Ruiqi Wang , Brooks Hu , Roch Guerin , Chenyang Lu

We propose an object detection system that relies on a multi-region deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that also encodes semantic segmentation-aware features. The resulting CNN-based representation aims at capturing a diverse set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Modern methods mainly regard lane detection as a problem of pixel-wise segmentation, which is struggling to address the problems of efficiency and challenging scenarios like severe occlusions and extreme lighting conditions. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zequn Qin , Pengyi Zhang , Xi Li

Model efficiency has become increasingly important in computer vision. In this paper, we systematically study neural network architecture design choices for object detection and propose several key optimizations to improve efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mingxing Tan , Ruoming Pang , Quoc V. Le

Recently, outstanding identification rates in image classification tasks were achieved by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). to use such skills, selective CNNs trained on a dataset of well-known images of metal surface defects captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Nadeem Jabbar Chaudhry , M. Bilal Khan , M. Javaid Iqbal , Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir

Both object detection in and semantic segmentation of camera images are important tasks for automated vehicles. Object detection is necessary so that the planning and behavior modules can reason about other road users. Semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Niels Ole Salscheider

In this paper, we address the problem of autonomous search and vessel detection in an unknown GNSS-denied maritime environment with fixed-wing UAVs. The main challenge in such environments with limited localization, communication range, and…

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great potential in effectively reducing manual effort in network design by automatically discovering optimal architectures. What is noteworthy is that as of now, object detection is less touched by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ning Wang , Yang Gao , Hao Chen , Peng Wang , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Yanning Zhang

A simulated annealing based algorithm is presented for the determination of optimal ship routes through the minimization of a cost function. This cost function is a weighted sum of the time of voyage and the voyage comfort (safety is taken…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 O. T. Kosmas , D. S. Vlachos

Huge imbalance of different scenes' sample numbers seriously reduces Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection accuracy. Thus, to solve this problem, this letter proposes a Balance Scene Learning Mechanism (BSLM) for offshore and…

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The unique cost, flexibility, speed, and efficiency of modern UAVs make them an attractive choice in many applications in contemporary society. This, however, causes an ever-increasing number of reported malicious or accidental incidents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Nikos Sakellariou , Antonios Lalas , Konstantinos Votis , Dimitrios Tzovaras

Recent advancements in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection using deep learning have significantly improved accuracy and speed, yet effectively detecting small objects in complex backgrounds with fewer parameters remains a…

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Ship wake detection is of great importance in the characterisation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the ocean surface since wakes usually carry essential information about vessels. Most detection methods exploit the linear…

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State-of-the-art object detection systems rely on an accurate set of region proposals. Several recent methods use a neural network architecture to hypothesize promising object locations. While these approaches are computationally efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi , Svetlana Lazebnik

In the realm of construction safety, the detection of personal protective equipment, such as helmets, plays a critical role in preventing workplace injuries. This paper details the development and evaluation of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mujadded Al Rabbani Alif

In recent years, with the development of the marine industry, navigation environment becomes more complicated. Some artificial intelligence technologies, such as computer vision, can recognize, track and count the sailing ships to ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Xu Kang , Bin Song , Jie Guo , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

In this paper, we propose a robust real time detection and tracking method for detecting ships in a coastal video sequences. Since coastal scenarios are unpredictable and scenes have dynamic properties it is essential to apply detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Mohammad Hassan Saghafi , Seyed Majid Noorhosseini , Seyed Abolfazl Seyed Javadein , Hadi Khalili