Multiple hypothesis tracking addresses difficult multiple target tracking problems by making
association decisions using multiple scans or frames of data. This paper reviews forty years …

AIS, Automatic Identification System, is an application of cyber-physical systems (CPS) to
smart transportation at sea. Being primarily used for collision avoidance and traffic …

The paper is devoted to statistical analysis of vessel motion patterns in the ports and
waterways using AIS ship self-reporting data. From the real historic AIS data we extract …

Background modeling and foreground detection are important steps in video processing
used to detect robustly moving objects in challenging environments. This requires effective …

The concepts of event and anomaly are important building blocks for developing a
situational picture of the observed environment. We here relate these concepts to the JDL …

Abstract Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) has become of key interest in many countries
around the world in the last decade, leading to an increased need to inform the historical …

In this paper, we present a decentralized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm formation
control approach based on a decision theoretic approach. Specifically, we pose the UAV …

The goal of maritime situational awareness (MSA) is to provide a seamless wide‐area
operational picture of ship traffic in coastal areas and the oceans in real time. Radar is a …

Numerous national and multinational initiatives in maritime surveillance have been initiated,
with the goal of having knowledge of all coastal and open-seas activities relevant to national …

The field of computer vision has been applied in many topics and scenes, especially in the
shipping business which occupies a large position in the world trade. With the development …