Context-Aware Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection in Maritime Surveillance
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| author | Acharya, Divya Bernab'e, Pierre Chevrot, Antoine Spieker, Helge Gotlieb, Arnaud Legeard, Bruno |
| author_facet | Acharya, Divya Bernab'e, Pierre Chevrot, Antoine Spieker, Helge Gotlieb, Arnaud Legeard, Bruno |
| contents | The detection of anomalies is crucial to ensuring the safety and security of maritime vessel traffic surveillance. Although autoencoders are popular for anomaly detection, their effectiveness in identifying collective and contextual anomalies is limited, especially in the maritime domain, where anomalies depend on vessel-specific contexts derived from self-reported AIS messages. To address these limitations, we propose a novel solution: the context-aware autoencoder. By integrating context-specific thresholds, our method improves detection accuracy and reduces computational cost. We compare four context-aware autoencoder variants and a conventional autoencoder using a case study focused on fishing status anomalies in maritime surveillance. Results demonstrate the significant impact of context on reconstruction loss and anomaly detection. The context-aware autoencoder outperforms others in detecting anomalies in time series data. By incorporating context-specific thresholds and recognizing the importance of context in anomaly detection, our approach offers a promising solution to improve accuracy in maritime vessel traffic surveillance systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Context-Aware Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection in Maritime Surveillance Acharya, Divya Bernab'e, Pierre Chevrot, Antoine Spieker, Helge Gotlieb, Arnaud Legeard, Bruno Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition The detection of anomalies is crucial to ensuring the safety and security of maritime vessel traffic surveillance. Although autoencoders are popular for anomaly detection, their effectiveness in identifying collective and contextual anomalies is limited, especially in the maritime domain, where anomalies depend on vessel-specific contexts derived from self-reported AIS messages. To address these limitations, we propose a novel solution: the context-aware autoencoder. By integrating context-specific thresholds, our method improves detection accuracy and reduces computational cost. We compare four context-aware autoencoder variants and a conventional autoencoder using a case study focused on fishing status anomalies in maritime surveillance. Results demonstrate the significant impact of context on reconstruction loss and anomaly detection. The context-aware autoencoder outperforms others in detecting anomalies in time series data. By incorporating context-specific thresholds and recognizing the importance of context in anomaly detection, our approach offers a promising solution to improve accuracy in maritime vessel traffic surveillance systems. |
| title | Context-Aware Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection in Maritime Surveillance |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00124 |