A Data Set for Airborne Maritime Surveillance Environments

This paper presents a data set with surveillance imagery over the sea captured by a small size UAV. This data set presents the object examples ranging from cargo ships, small boats, life rafts to hydrocarbon slick. The video sequences were captured using different types of cameras, at different heights, and different perspectives. The data set also contains thousands of labels with positions of objects of interest. This was only possible to achieve with the labeling tool also described in this paper. Additionally, using standard evaluation frameworks, we establish a baseline of results using algorithms developed by the authors, which are better adapted to the maritime environment.