A Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television

Vessel recognition plays important role in ensuring navigation safety. However, existing methods are mainly based on a single sensor, such as automatic identification system (AIS), marine radar, closed-circuit television (CCTV), etc. To this end, this paper proposes a coarse-to-fine recognition meth...

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Autores principales: Xinglong Liu, Yicheng Li, Yong Wu, Zhiyuan Wang, Wei He, Zhixiong Li
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f94c6f295dab416783c4423c5ac235b12021-11-25T18:04:15ZA Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television10.3390/jmse91111992077-1312https://doaj.org/article/f94c6f295dab416783c4423c5ac235b12021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/9/11/1199https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1312Vessel recognition plays important role in ensuring navigation safety. However, existing methods are mainly based on a single sensor, such as automatic identification system (AIS), marine radar, closed-circuit television (CCTV), etc. To this end, this paper proposes a coarse-to-fine recognition method by fusing CCTV and marine radar, called multi-scale matching vessel recognition (MSM-VR). This method first proposes a novel calibration method that does not use any additional calibration target. The calibration is transformed to solve an N point registration model. Furthermore, marine radar image is used for coarse detection. A region of interest (ROI) area is computed for coarse detection results. Lastly, we design a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) called VesNet and transform the recognition into feature extraction. The VesNet is used to extract the vessel features. As a result, the MVM-VR method has been validated by using actual datasets collected along different waterways such as Nanjing waterway and Wuhan waterway, China, covering different times and weather conditions. Experimental results show that the MSM-VR method can adapt to different times, different weather conditions, and different waterways with good detection stability. The recognition accuracy is no less than 96%. Compared to other methods, the proposed method has high accuracy and great robustness.Xinglong LiuYicheng LiYong WuZhiyuan WangWei HeZhixiong LiMDPI AGarticlemarine vessel recognitionmulti-scale matchingconvolutional neural network (CNN)radar-camera calibrationvessel net (VesNet)Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineeringVM1-989OceanographyGC1-1581ENJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol 9, Iss 1199, p 1199 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic marine vessel recognition
multi-scale matching
convolutional neural network (CNN)
radar-camera calibration
vessel net (VesNet)
Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
VM1-989
Oceanography
GC1-1581
spellingShingle marine vessel recognition
multi-scale matching
convolutional neural network (CNN)
radar-camera calibration
vessel net (VesNet)
Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
VM1-989
Oceanography
GC1-1581
Xinglong Liu
Yicheng Li
Yong Wu
Zhiyuan Wang
Wei He
Zhixiong Li
A Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television
description Vessel recognition plays important role in ensuring navigation safety. However, existing methods are mainly based on a single sensor, such as automatic identification system (AIS), marine radar, closed-circuit television (CCTV), etc. To this end, this paper proposes a coarse-to-fine recognition method by fusing CCTV and marine radar, called multi-scale matching vessel recognition (MSM-VR). This method first proposes a novel calibration method that does not use any additional calibration target. The calibration is transformed to solve an N point registration model. Furthermore, marine radar image is used for coarse detection. A region of interest (ROI) area is computed for coarse detection results. Lastly, we design a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) called VesNet and transform the recognition into feature extraction. The VesNet is used to extract the vessel features. As a result, the MVM-VR method has been validated by using actual datasets collected along different waterways such as Nanjing waterway and Wuhan waterway, China, covering different times and weather conditions. Experimental results show that the MSM-VR method can adapt to different times, different weather conditions, and different waterways with good detection stability. The recognition accuracy is no less than 96%. Compared to other methods, the proposed method has high accuracy and great robustness.
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author Xinglong Liu
Yicheng Li
Yong Wu
Zhiyuan Wang
Wei He
Zhixiong Li
author_facet Xinglong Liu
Yicheng Li
Yong Wu
Zhiyuan Wang
Wei He
Zhixiong Li
author_sort Xinglong Liu
title A Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television
title_short A Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television
title_full A Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television
title_fullStr A Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television
title_full_unstemmed A Hybrid Method for Inland Ship Recognition Using Marine Radar and Closed-Circuit Television
title_sort hybrid method for inland ship recognition using marine radar and closed-circuit television
publisher MDPI AG
publishDate 2021
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