AUTHOR(S):

Rodrigo Da Silva Moreira, Nelson Francisco Favilla Ebecken, Alexandre Soares Alves, Frédéric Livernet, Aline Campillo-Navetti

TITLE

A survey on video detection and tracking of maritime vessels

KEYWORDS

Maritime surveillance systems, tracking, detection, features, image processing, radars.

ABSTRACT

Maritime surveillance systems can be employed to increase the security of ports, airports, merchant and war ships against pirates, terrorists or any hostile vessel attacks, to avoid collisions, to control maritime traffic at ports and channels and for coastal and oil platforms defense. Cameras are one of the main sensors of these systems. They are cheap and complement other types of sensors. There are few papers about video maritime surveillance systems present in literature compared with other kinds of video surveillance systems. This survey was motivated by the importance of the subject, to motivate new researches and because there are no surveys about video detection and tracking of marine vehicles or they are not widespread. The paper presents the state of the art algorithms.

Cite this paper

Rodrigo Da Silva Moreira, Nelson Francisco Favilla Ebecken, Alexandre Soares Alves, Frédéric Livernet, Aline Campillo-Navetti. (2016) A survey on video detection and tracking of maritime vessels. International Journal of Signal Processing, 1, 47-60