Small Vessel Detection and Tracking

作为一个岛国，海洋为英国提供了一条重要的防线，以保护其免受不受欢迎的游客的伤害。然而，海洋领域是出了名的困难和危险的作业环境，这使得传统的巡逻监视方法成本高昂。因此，在日益需要对英国领海进行态势感知的时候，英国的海上监测能力现在非常有限。SiriusInsight已经开发出一种能力，可以使用人工智能来分析远程来源的数据(卫星和陆地)，从而避免了人工参与数据收集或处理。SiriusInsight将利用其InnovateUK Smart Grant进一步发展这一能力，以探测和识别通常用于走私毒品、人口和违禁品的小型船只。在这样做的过程中，它将人工智能、计算机视觉、生命模式分析和异常检测方面的最先进方法结合在一起，这些方法可以用于监测和警报，与替代方案相比，这种方式将以最低的成本大大提高覆盖范围。该技术具有广泛的监测应用和潜在用户，包括海上海岸警卫队(海上安全和环境)、边境部队(非法移民和走私)和DEFRA(渔业保护)。基于SiriusInsight产品的实时态势感知也可用于增强商业航运的避碰，尤其适用于操纵能力受限的船只(如测量船)和自主航运。在风电场等海上开发项目的规划中，也有应用增强的生命模式分析。将人工智能与海洋领域相结合，将英国有机会继续作为世界领先者的两个领域。InnovateUK的拨款不仅将确保领先的人工智能工程师在英国的就业，还将帮助SiriusInsight保持英国在该领域的领先地位。

As an island nation, the sea provides the UK with an important line of defence to protect it from unwanted visitors. However, the marine domain is a notoriously difficult and dangerous environment in which to operate which makes traditional patrolling surveillance methods expensive. As a result, the country's maritime monitoring capabilities are now very limited at a time when there is increasing need to have situational awareness of UK territorial waters.SiriusInsight has developed a capability to use artificial intelligence to analyse remotely sourced data (both satellite and terrestrial) which avoids the need for human involvement in either the data collection or its processing.SiriusInsight will use its InnovateUK Smart Grant to develop further this capability in order to detect and identify smaller vessels of the kind commonly used in the smuggling of drugs, people and contraband. In so doing, it brings together state-of-art approaches in artificial intelligence, computer vision, pattern of life analysis and anomaly detection that can be used for monitoring and alerting in a way which will greatly enhance coverage at minimal cost relative to the alternatives. This technology has a wide range of monitoring applications and potential users including Maritime Coastguard (sea safety and environment), Border Force (illegal migration and smuggling) and DEFRA (fishery protection).Real-time situational awareness based on the SiriusInsight product can also be used to enhance collision avoidance for commercial shipping with particular application for vessels with restricted ability to manoeuvre (like survey vessels) and autonomous shipping. There are also applications for enhanced pattern of life analysis in planning for offshore developments like wind farms.Combining artificial intelligence with the marine domain brings together two areas where the UK has the opportunity to continue as a world leader. The InnovateUK grant will not only secure employment in the UK for leading AI engineers but also help SiriusInsight maintain the country's leading position in this field.