Affiliation:
1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan 31538, Republic of Korea
2. Department of Computer Science, Air University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Abstract
In maritime surveillance systems, object detection plays a crucial role in ensuring the security of nearby waters by tracking the movement of various objects, such as ships and aircrafts, that are found at sea, detecting illegal activities and preemptively countering or predicting potential risks. Using vision sensors such as cameras to monitor the sea can help to identify the shape, size, and color of objects, enabling the precise analysis of maritime situations. Additionally, vision sensors can monitor or track small ships that may escape radar detection. However, objects located at considerable distances from vision sensors have low resolution and are small in size, rendering their detection difficult. This paper proposes a multifocal object detection associative network (MODAN) to overcome these vulnerabilities and provide stable maritime surveillance. First, it searches for the horizon using color quantization based on K-means; then, it selects and partitions the region of interest (ROI) around the horizon using the ROI selector. The original image and ROI image, converted to high resolution through the Super-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network (SRCNN), are then passed to the near-field and far-field detectors, respectively, for object detection. The weighted box fusion removes duplicate detected objects and estimates the optimal object. The proposed network is more stable and efficient in detecting distant objects than existing single-object detection models. Through performance evaluations, the proposed network exhibited an average precision surpassing that of the existing single-object detection models by more than 7%, and the false detection rate was reduced by 59% compared to similar multifocal-based state-of-the-art detection methods.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Korea
Soonchunhyang University Research Fund
Subject
Ocean Engineering,Water Science and Technology,Civil and Structural Engineering
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