Argo: Towards Small Vessel Detection for Humanitarian Purposes
Abstract
Refugees trying to get to Europe via the Mediterranean often face human rights violations. The present situation is not in line with the UN's SDG's 10 and 16. We present Argo: a semi-automatically created vessel classification dataset focused on small boats, with the aim to enable NGOs and the public to detect refugee boats in satellite imagery. We achieve a classification recall of 91% on small ships. With a tool developed on top of the results presented here, NGOs could collect information and hold institutions participating in illegal activities accountable.
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Moser et al. "Argo: Towards Small Vessel Detection for Humanitarian Purposes." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022. doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2022/728Markdown
[Moser et al. "Argo: Towards Small Vessel Detection for Humanitarian Purposes." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2022/moser2022ijcai-argo/) doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2022/728BibTeX
@inproceedings{moser2022ijcai-argo,
title = {{Argo: Towards Small Vessel Detection for Humanitarian Purposes}},
author = {Moser, Elisabeth and Meyer, Selina and Schmidhuber, Maximilian and Ketterer, Daniel and Eberhardt, Matthias},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2022},
pages = {5245-5248},
doi = {10.24963/IJCAI.2022/728},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2022/moser2022ijcai-argo/}
}