Sea-Scan: High-Accuracy, ML-based Dark Vessel Detection and Localisation via Weakly Supervised DAS Monitoring

Abstract

We present an ML-based vessel detection and localization system, trained with weak supervision from imperfect AIS labels, that achieves a 97.8% detection rate at 1.98% false-trigger rate, successfully identifies dark-vessel events from unlabeled data.

arXiv commentThis paper is accepted for presentation at ECOC 2026