Maritime piracy poses various risks that can cause disruptions, economic problems, injuries
of crew members, and damages to ships. This paper proposes an analytical model based on …

Maritime piracy and robbery can not only cause logistics chain disruption leading to
economic consequences but also result in loss of lives, and short-and long-term health …

A combined Gaussian mixture model and hidden Markov model (HMM) is developed to
distinguish between slow moving animal and human targets using mel-cepstrum …

Online opinionated data has increased tremendously since the arrival of web 2.0. Users
have the authority to generate online content expressing their sentiments or opinions …

Abstract The Naïve Bayes Switching Linear Dynamical System (NB-SLDS) is proposed as a
novel variant of the switching linear dynamical system (SLDS). The variant models multi …

Advances in computer science prompt the creation of new economic models. One of them in
urban life is sharing economy. This new economic model receives high attentions and has …

In this work we propose a novel algorithm for foreground segmentation in video sequences
that achieves better accuracy, while maintaining low complexity and allows real time …

This paper describes a new multimodal maritime dataset recorded using a multispectral
suite of sensors, including AIS, GPS, radar, and visible and thermal cameras. The visible …

A decision-support system for combating abalone poaching is proposed. A dynamic
Bayesian network (DBN) is used to model context-based behaviour of vessels in a maritime …

We present in this paper a technique for Loitering detection based on the analysis of activity
zones of the monitored area. Activity zones are learnt online employing a soft computing …