Development of Prediction System for Ship Movements Using Machine Learning and Radar Images

To maintain ship navigation safety, the navigator must understand and predict the movements of other ships. Radar images include both ship (target) and non-ship images (noise), such as sea clutter. To understand the movements of other ships, navigators must detect ship images from radar images manually. To maintain the optimum situation awareness of navigators while reducing the workload, a function that can automatically detect and track ship images, including small ships, is desired on the radar. Therefore, a system to predict ship movements using machine learning and radar images is proposed in this study. The proposed prediction system is based on a learning model developed using a denoising convolutional autoencoder. The learning and validation data are radar images processed via image processing in advance. The prediction accuracy of ship movements in this study is 90.97%, and the loss is 0.0396.