Summary of Evaluating Neural Networks For Early Maritime Threat Detection, by Dhanush Tella et al.
Evaluating Neural Networks for Early Maritime Threat Detection
by Dhanush Tella, Chandra Teja Tiriveedhi, Naphtali Rishe, Dan E. Tamir, Jonathan I. Tamir
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach for classifying boat activity trajectories as a proxy for assessing maritime threats. The authors investigate the effectiveness of neural network-based methods in contrast to traditional entropy-based clustering techniques. Four neural network models are trained and compared to shallow learning on synthetic data, with evaluations conducted at varying time steps and using rotated data. To enhance test-time robustness, trajectory normalization and rotation-based data augmentation are employed. The results demonstrate that deep networks can achieve high accuracy (up to 100%) for full trajectories, with graceful degradation as the number of time steps decreases, outperforming entropy-based clustering. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to solve a problem where boat activities are classified into different types. They compare two ways of doing this: one is based on how much boats move around (entropy-based), and the other uses special computers called neural networks. The authors train four of these networks and test them using fake data, and also see how they do when there’s more or less information available over time. To make sure their results are good even if the data is a little different from what they trained on, they use techniques like normalizing and rotating the boat activity data. Overall, the deep networks work really well (up to 100% accurate) for full trajectories and get better as more information becomes available. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering » Data augmentation » Neural network » Synthetic data
