High-fidelity ship imaging trajectory extraction via an instance segmentation model

With the mining of marine resources, intelligent shipping has become more and more important, and ship tracking technology is the key technology of intelligent shipping. We propose a framework that combines instance segmentation and the improved Bytetrack multi-target tracking algorithm, which first obtains the exact position and outline of the ship, and secondly completes the ship target tracking according to Bytetrack, aiming to solve the problem of ship occlusion in video ship tracking. Finally, through experiments to verify the proposed ship tracking framework in specific scenarios, our algorithm achieves good results in both MOTA (Multi-Object Tracking Accuracy) and MOTP (Multi-Object Tracking Precision) indicators, and has good tracking performance, which is helpful for smart ships to perceive the surrounding situation.