Abstract
This work presents a novel technique for automatic detection and tracking of marine vehicles in video of open sea. The source of video is a video camera mounted on a buoy platform in open sea. Such system is intended to work autonomously, taking video of the surrounding ocean surface and analyzing them on presence of marine vehicles. The proposed technique is based on detection of marine vehicles in individual video frames and tracking the detected targets through the video sequence with the help of a tracking algorithm. Several performance metrics are utilized for performance evaluation of the proposed approach. Accuracy of detection in 90% range is shown on a dataset of 30 short video sequences taken by a prototype of the system.