Behavior Recognition and Threat Assessment for Unmanned Sea Surface Vehicles (BRETA)

Project Description

The US Navy is placing increased demands on the autonomy of Unmanned Sea Surface Vehicles (USSV), such as exploring ways to use USSVs to autonomously perform missions that were previously performed by manned vessels. Examples of such mission types include resupply, anti-terrorism and force protection. Autonomous execution of such missions shall require the USSVs to anticipate, detect and sometimes counter threatening situations.

In collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory, we are exploring the use of graphical models to better recognize and predict activities and threatening behaviors.

Accomplishments

We have developed tools for annotating image sequence data and prepared several data sets for exploring the effectiveness of graphical models for maritime vessel activity and intent recognition.