Small Vessel Detection and Tracking

作为一个岛国，海洋为英国提供了一道重要的防线，保护它免受不速之客的侵害。然而，海洋领域是一个众所周知的困难和危险的环境，这使得传统的巡逻监视方法成本高昂。因此，在对英国领海的态势感知需求日益增加的情况下，该国的海上监测能力现在非常有限。SiriusInsight已经开发出一种使用人工智能分析远程数据（包括卫星和地面）的能力，从而避免了人工参与数据收集或处理的需要。SiriusInsight将利用其InnovateUK Smart Grant进一步开发这种能力，以检测和识别通常用于走私毒品、人口和违禁品的小型船只。在此过程中，它汇集了人工智能、计算机视觉、生命模式分析和异常检测方面的最先进方法，可用于监测和警报，从而以相对于替代方案的最低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能力，特别是在操纵能力有限的船舶（如调查船）和自主航运方面的应用。在风力发电场等海上开发项目的规划中，也有增强生命模式分析的应用。将人工智能与海洋领域结合在一起，英国有机会继续作为世界领导者。InnovateUK的资助不仅将确保领先的人工智能工程师在英国就业，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.