China opens world’s largest ship data set that could be used to train drones
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- China has released the world's largest ship dataset containing thousands of visible and infrared images for drone training, according to a peer-reviewed study. The dataset addresses challenges in maritime vessel recognition due to environmental factors like glare and weather. The research was conducted by Chinese institutions and highlights technical difficulties in detecting naval targets under contested conditions.
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“China opens world’s largest ship data set that could be used to train drones”
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“The resource includes thousands of paired visible and infrared images that are expected to reshape vessel recognition at sea”
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“The dual-modal ship detection (DMSD) data set contains more than 2,000 paired visible and infrared vessel images and nearly 20,000 annotated instances, according to the peer-reviewed study published in January by the Chinese-language Journal of Radars”
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“The challenge was illustrated in February when an Iranian claim of a successful strike on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near the Strait of Hormuz was dismissed by Washington, which said the missiles or drones involved did not come close”
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“The study was led by researchers from the Naval Aeronautical University in Yantai, Harbin Engineering University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Computing Technology”
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