MID: A Comprehensive Shore-Based Dataset for Multi-Scale Dense Ship Occlusion and Interaction Scenarios

TL;DR

The paper presents MID, a large, diverse maritime dataset with detailed annotations for ship detection in complex scenarios, aiming to improve maritime situational awareness and autonomous navigation.

Contribution

Introduces MID, a comprehensive maritime dataset with diverse scenarios and detailed annotations, filling gaps in existing datasets for ship detection tasks.

Findings

Evaluated 10 detection algorithms on MID.

Demonstrated MID's effectiveness in occlusion and dense target scenarios.

Provided insights into model performance in complex maritime environments.

Abstract

This paper introduces the Maritime Ship Navigation Behavior Dataset (MID), designed to address challenges in ship detection within complex maritime environments using Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBB). MID contains 5,673 images with 135,884 finely annotated target instances, supporting both supervised and semi-supervised learning. It features diverse maritime scenarios such as ship encounters under varying weather, docking maneuvers, small target clustering, and partial occlusions, filling critical gaps in datasets like HRSID, SSDD, and NWPU-10. MID's images are sourced from high-definition video clips of real-world navigation across 43 water areas, with varied weather and lighting conditions (e.g., rain, fog). Manually curated annotations enhance the dataset's variety, ensuring its applicability to real-world demands in busy ports and dense maritime regions. This diversity equips models trained on MID to better handle complex, dynamic environments, supporting advancements in maritime situational awareness. To validate MID's utility, we evaluated 10 detection algorithms, providing an in-depth analysis of the dataset, detection results from various models, and a comparative study of baseline algorithms, with a focus on handling occlusions and dense target clusters. The results highlight MID's potential to drive innovation in intelligent maritime traffic monitoring and autonomous navigation systems. The dataset will be made publicly available at https://github.com/VirtualNew/MID_DataSet.