Maritime assets such as ports, harbors, and vessels are vulnerable to a variety of near-shore threats such as small-boat attacks. Currently, such vulnerabilities are addressed predominantly by watchstanders and manual video surveillance, which is manpower intensive. Automatic maritime video surveillance techniques are being introduced to reduce manpower costs, but they have limited functionality and performance. For example, they only detect simple events such as perimeter breaches and cannot predict emerging threats. They also generate too many false alerts and cannot explain their reasoning. To overcome these limitations, we are developing the Maritime Activity Analysis Workbench (MAAW), which will be a mixed-initiative, real-time maritime video surveillance tool that uses an integrated supervised machine learning approach to label independent and coordinated maritime activities. It uses the same information to predict anomalous behavior and explain its reasoning. This is an important capability for watchstander training and for collecting performance feedback. In this paper, we describe MAAW's functional architecture, which includes the following pipeline of components: (1) a video acquisition and preprocessing component that detects and tracks vessels in video images, (2) a vessel categorization and activity labeling component that uses standard and relational supervised machine learning methods to label maritime activities, and (3) an ontology-guided vessel and maritime activity annotator to enable subject matter experts (e.g., watchstanders) to provide feedback and supervision to the system. We report our findings from a preliminary system evaluation on river traffic video.
Adaptive Maritime Video Surveillance
2009
14 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Physical & Chemical Oceanography , Computers, Control & Information Theory , Photographic Techniques & Equipment , Military Intelligence , Classification , Decision support systems , Detection , Inshore areas , Learning machines , Surveillance , Threat evaluation , Video images , Adaptive systems , Anomalies , Automation , Awareness , Computer programs , Expert systems , Harbors , Littoral zones , Ports(Facilities) , Predictions , Real time , Rivers , Ships , Symposia , Tracking , Maritime video surveillance , Maritime domain awareness , Maritime activity analysis workbench , Maaw(Maritime activity analysis workbench) , Ship detection , Ship tracking , Ship classification , Subject matter experts , River traffic video , Threat prediction