China has released its first publicly available ship detection data set, which could enhance maritime surveillance for drones and missiles. The data set contains over 2,000 paired images and 20,000 annotated instances.

A Chinese military research team has released what it described as the first publicly available visible light-infrared ship detection data set, a resource that could sharpen maritime target recognition for drones, missiles or surveillance systems operating at night or in environments where radar is degraded or suppressed. The dual-modal ship detection (DMSD) data set contains more than 2,000 paired visible and infrared vessel images and nearly 20,000 annotated instances, according to the...