Assessing Deep-learning Methods for Object Detection at Sea from LWIR Images

Frederik Emil Thorsson Schöller, Martin Krarup Plenge-Feidenhans'l, Jonathan Dyssel Stets, Mogens Blanke

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Abstract

This paper assesses the performance of three convolutional neural networks for object detection at sea using Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) images in the 8 − 14µm range. Capturing images from ferries and annotating 20k images, fine-tuning is done of three state of art deep neural networks: RetinaNet, YOLO and Faster R-CNN. Targeting on vessels and buoys as two main classes of interest for navigation, performance is quantified by the cardinality of true and false positives and negatives in a random validation set. Calculating precision and recall as functions of tuning parameters for the three classifiers, noticeable differences are found between the three networks when used for LWIR image object classification at sea. The results lead to conclusions on imaging requirements when classification is used to support navigation.
Original languageEnglish
Book seriesI F A C Workshop Series
Volume52
Issue number21
Pages (from-to)64-71
ISSN1474-6670
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event12th Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles - Chunghi & Byiung Jun Park KI Building, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 18 Sept 201920 Sept 2019
Conference number: 12
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Conference12th Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles
Number12
LocationChunghi & Byiung Jun Park KI Building, KAIST
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaejeon
Period18/09/201920/09/2019
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Keywords

  • Object Detection
  • Autonomous marine crafts
  • Navigation
  • Long-wave Infra-red
  • Detection at sea
  • Autonomous Ship

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    Blanke, M. (PI), Galeazzi, R. (CoPI), Dittmann, K. (CoPI), Hansen, S. (CoPI), Papageorgiou, D. (Supervisor), Nalpantidis, L. (Supervisor), Schöller, F. E. T. S. (PhD Student), Plenge-Feidenhans'l, M. K. (PhD Student), Hansen, N. (PhD Student), Andersen, R. H. (Project Participant), Becktor, J. B. (PhD Student), Enevoldsen, T. T. (PhD Student), Dagdilelis, D. (PhD Student), Karstensen, P. I. H. (Project Participant), Nielsen, R. E. (Project Participant), Garde, J. (Project Participant), Ravn, O. (Supervisor), Christin, L. P. E. (PI) & Nielsen, R. E. (Project Participant)

    01/04/201931/12/2022

    Project: Research

  • ASAN: Autonomous Situation Awareness for Navigation

    Blanke, M. (PI), Hansen, S. (Project Participant), Papageorgiou, D. (Project Participant) & Stets, J. D. (Project Participant)

    01/12/201831/03/2021

    Project: Research

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