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Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships
Britain’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) says it helped to develop a code of safety for future remotely operated and autonomous cargo ships. The executive body, responsible for maritime law and safety policy, represented the UK’s interests in working groups during development of the first non-mandatory International Code of Safety for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS Code). This code, set to be published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on July 1, is the first...
MariData: One-Step Unpaired Image Translation for Maritime Environments
arXiv:2606.03246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development on robust perception systems for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) is heavily constrained by the scarcity of diverse training data, particularly for adverse weather and low-light conditions. Because collecting paired images in dynamic maritime environments is physically impossible, synthetic data generation via unpaired image-to-image translation offers a critical solution. However, existing generative models suffer from...
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Could Russia hit northern Europe if it gained control of Arctic’s Bear Gap?
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