Abstract:
Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) has many advantages for close in monitoring and tracking of ships, such as low cost, safe and sneak. A visual tracking method for a target monitoring system based on 7 m-level ‘Jiuhang 750’ high-speed USV is proposed using improved Siamese Region Proposal Network (SiameseRPN). The backbone network of the proposed algorithm is replaced by ResNet50, and multi-level feature fusion modules are added between the Siamese network and RPN network. Comparing with the original SiamRPN and SiamFC, the accuracy and robustness of the proposed algorithm is improved. Based on the monitoring data of ‘Zhifei’ container using the ‘Jiuhang 750’ USV in the sea experiment, the visual target tracking algorithm is tested and validated under three conditions, which are unstable course at low-speed, speeding and high-speed conditions. The feasibility and availability of the proposed algorithm are verified by the experiment results.