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Maritime AIS (Automatic Identification Systems) data serve as a valuable resource for studying vessel behavior. This study proposes a methodology to analyze route between maritime points of interest and extract geo-referenced standard…

The automatic identification system (AIS) reports vessels' static and dynamic information, which are essential for maritime traffic situation awareness. However, AIS transponders can be switched off to hide suspicious activities, such as…

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In marine surveillance, distinguishing between normal and anomalous vessel movement patterns is critical for identifying potential threats in a timely manner. Once detected, it is important to monitor and track these vessels until a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Md Asif Bin Syed , Imtiaz Ahmed

Efficiently handling Automatic Identification System (AIS) data is vital for enhancing maritime safety and navigation, yet is hindered by the system's high volume and error-prone datasets. This paper introduces the Automatic Identification…

Autonomous navigation in maritime domains is accelerating alongside advances in artificial intelligence, sensing, and connectivity. Opaque decision-making and poorly calibrated human-automation interaction remain key barriers to safe…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhuoyue Zhang , Haitong Xu

Accurate recognition of vessel types from Automatic Identification System (AIS) tracks is essential for safety oversight and combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) activity. This paper presents a strait-scale, machine-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jonatan Katz Nielsen

The global expansion of maritime activities and the development of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) have driven the advances in maritime monitoring systems in the last decade. Monitoring vessel behavior is fundamental to safeguard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Lucas May Petry , Amilcar Soares , Vania Bogorny , Bruno Brandoli , Stan Matwin

The constant growth of maritime traffic leads to the need of automatic anomaly detection, which has been attracting great research attention. Information provided by AIS (Automatic Identification System) data, together with recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Duong Nguyen , Matthieu Simonin , Guillaume Hajduch , Rodolphe Vadaine , Cédric Tedeschi , Ronan Fablet

In previous work we introduced a trajectory detection module that can provide summarized representations of vessel trajectories by consuming AIS positional messages online. This methodology can provide reliable trajectory synopses with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Giannis Fikioris , Kostas Patroumpas , Alexander Artikis

Automatic Ship Identification Systems (AIS) play a key role in monitoring maritime traffic, providing the data necessary for analysis and decision-making. The integrity of this data is fundamental to the correctness of infer-ence and…

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Vessel trajectory clustering, a crucial component of the maritime intelligent transportation systems, provides valuable insights for applications such as anomaly detection and trajectory prediction. This paper presents a comprehensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Maohan Liang , Ryan Wen Liu , Ruobin Gao , Zhe Xiao , Xiaocai Zhang , Hua Wang

Accurate vessel estimated-time-of-arrival forecasts are critical for port operations and decarbonization, yet global-scale travel-time prediction remains difficult without costly contextual data. Herein, I present a methodology for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Neofytos Dimitriou

Understanding and representing traffic patterns are key to detecting anomalous trajectories in the transportation domain. However, some trajectories can exhibit heterogeneous maneuvering characteristics despite confining to normal patterns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Sandeep Kumar Singh , Jaya Shradha Fowdur , Jakob Gawlikowski , Daniel Medina

Repairing incomplete trajectory data is essential for downstream spatio-temporal applications. Yet, existing repair methods focus solely on reconstruction without documenting the reasoning behind repair decisions, undermining trust in…

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Modeling vessel activity at sea is critical for a wide range of applications, including route planning, transportation logistics, maritime safety, and environmental monitoring. Over the past two decades, the Automatic Identification System…

Understanding past and present maritime activity patterns is critical for navigation safety, environmental assessment, and commercial operations. An increasing number of services now openly provide positioning data from the Automatic…

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The oceans are a source of an impressive mixture of complex data that could be used to uncover relationships yet to be discovered. Such data comes from the oceans and their surface, such as Automatic Identification System (AIS) messages…

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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…

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Long-horizon navigation in unstructured environments demands terrain abstractions that scale to tens of km$^2$ while preserving semantic and geometric structure, a combination existing methods fail to achieve. Grids scale poorly; quadtrees…

Human decision-making errors cause a majority of globally reported marine accidents. As a result, automation in the marine industry has been gaining more attention in recent years. Obstacle avoidance becomes very challenging for an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Md Shadab Alam , Sanjeev Kumar Ramkumar Sudha , Abhilash Somayajula