Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea

This work presents a new technique for automatic detection of marine vehicles in images and video of open sea. Users of such system include border guards, military, port safety, flow management, and sanctuary protection personnel. The source of images and video is a digital camera or a camcorder whi...

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Main Author: Fefilatyev, Sergiy
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2008
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spelling ndltd-USF-oai-scholarcommons.usf.edu-etd-12332019-10-04T05:15:54Z Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea Fefilatyev, Sergiy This work presents a new technique for automatic detection of marine vehicles in images and video of open sea. Users of such system include border guards, military, port safety, flow management, and sanctuary protection personnel. The source of images and video is a digital camera or a camcorder which is placed on a buoy or stationary mounted in a harbor facility. The system is intended to work autonomously, taking images of the surrounding ocean surface and analyzing them for the presence of marine vehicles. The goal of the system is to detect an approximate window around the ship. The proposed computer vision-based algorithm combines a horizon detection method with edge detection and postprocessing. Several datasets of still images are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed technique. For video sequences the original algorithm is further enhanced with a tracking algorithm that uses Kalman filter. A separate dataset of 30 video sequences 10 seconds each is used to test its performance. Promising results of the detection of ships are discussed and necessary improvements for achieving better performance are suggested. 2008-06-24T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/234 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1233&context=etd default Graduate Theses and Dissertations Scholar Commons ship detection tracking horizon detection computer vision buoy camera Kalman filter machine learning performance evaluation American Studies Arts and Humanities
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topic ship detection
tracking
horizon detection
computer vision
buoy camera
Kalman filter
machine learning
performance evaluation
American Studies
Arts and Humanities
spellingShingle ship detection
tracking
horizon detection
computer vision
buoy camera
Kalman filter
machine learning
performance evaluation
American Studies
Arts and Humanities
Fefilatyev, Sergiy
Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea
description This work presents a new technique for automatic detection of marine vehicles in images and video of open sea. Users of such system include border guards, military, port safety, flow management, and sanctuary protection personnel. The source of images and video is a digital camera or a camcorder which is placed on a buoy or stationary mounted in a harbor facility. The system is intended to work autonomously, taking images of the surrounding ocean surface and analyzing them for the presence of marine vehicles. The goal of the system is to detect an approximate window around the ship. The proposed computer vision-based algorithm combines a horizon detection method with edge detection and postprocessing. Several datasets of still images are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed technique. For video sequences the original algorithm is further enhanced with a tracking algorithm that uses Kalman filter. A separate dataset of 30 video sequences 10 seconds each is used to test its performance. Promising results of the detection of ships are discussed and necessary improvements for achieving better performance are suggested.
author Fefilatyev, Sergiy
author_facet Fefilatyev, Sergiy
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title Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea
title_short Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea
title_full Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea
title_fullStr Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea
title_full_unstemmed Detection of Marine Vehicles in Images and Video of Open Sea
title_sort detection of marine vehicles in images and video of open sea
publisher Scholar Commons
publishDate 2008
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