pacificocean.ai
#Pacific Ocean AI | Artificial Intelligence for Pacific Ocean
#AutoMarineSys | Autonmous Marine Systems
#SEA.AI | Detecting floating objects early | Using thermal and optical cameras to catch also objects escaping conventional systems such as Radar or AIS: Unsignalled crafts or other floating obstacles, e.g., containers, tree trunks, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, persons over board | System computes input from lowlight and thermal cameras, using Machine Vision technology, deep learning capabilities and proprietary database of millions of annotated marine objects | High-resolution lowlight and thermal cameras | Real-time learning of water surface patterns | Searching for anomalies | Distinguishing water from non-water | Comparing anomalies with neural network | Recognize objects by matching combination of filters | Augmented reality video stream combined with map view | Intelligent alarming based on threat level | Detecting persons in water | On-board cameras with integrated image processing | Providing digital understanding of vessel surroundings on water | SEA.AI App on smartphone or tablet
#SailDrone | Ocean Data Solutions with Autonomous Surface Vehicles
#Avikus | Developing autonomous navigation solutions for vessels | HiNAS for large merchant ships | Displaying detected ships and navigation information in AR images | Sensor fusion technology | NeuBoat for boats | NAS, Navigation Assistant System | BAS, Berthing Assistant System | DAS, Docking Assistant System
#Open Ocean Robotics | Solar powered autonomous boats | Real time information to protect oceans | Sensors, cameras and communication devices capturing information | Solar powered boats can travel nonstop for months, without producing any greenhouse gas emissions, noise pollution or risk of oil spills | ASVs (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) can monitor for oil spills, detect intentional dumping
#WINDWARD AI |Decision Support Platform to Accelerate Global Trade | AI-DrivenVessel Profile | AI-powered solution for accurate, real-time visibility, including vessel tracking and container tracking
#Seaber | AI assisted planning of fleet schedule | Algorithm assisted optimization of schedule and fleet TCE as you plan | Controllin bulk cargo orders, fleets and vessel utilisation, port timings and rotations
#awake.ai | AI-driven Optimisation Platform for Port Operations
#Orca AI | FleetView for fleet operators and management | SeaPod | Artificial intelligence-based maritime navigation assistant, watchkeeper | Automated object detection and prioritization | All marine object detection | Curbing marine mammal strikes | Reducing whale mortality rates
#Ocean Infinity | Data AUVs collect at Morro Bay help Equinor develop and refine its floating offshore wind farm design and inform site assessment, construction and operations plans
#Seakit International | MaxLimer | Uncrewed surface vessel
#SeaRobotics | Unmanned Marine Systems & Engineering | Autonomous Surface Vehicles | Sensor suites
#Nvidia | GPU computing | AI Development Platforms and SDKs
#Heliogen | Decarbonizing industry with concentrated sunlight
#Pacific Islands Forum | 18 members: Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu
#Ocean Cleanup | Ridding oceans of plastic
#Maersk | Support vessels Tender and Trader for Ocean Cleanup | Logistics support in Rotterdam
#AP Moller Foundation | Financial support for Ocean Cleanup
#Kia | Global Partnership deal with Ocean Cleanup | Contributions for ocean operations and construction of Interceptor Original river cleaning devices
#Coca-Cola | Ocean Cleanup and Coca-Cola partnering to deploy Interceptors and expedite river projects
#Deloitte | Consulting to Ocean Cleanup
#Netherlands | Partnership deal with Ocean Cleanup | Both unique character of cleanup systems and relevant provisions of Law of Sea Convention are taken into account by Dutch gov |Netherlands Institute of the Law of the Sea (NILOS)
#Macquarie Group Foundation | Supporting Ocean Cleanup
#Societe General | Funding to Ocean Cleanup
#Blue Atlas Robotics | Sentinus Go! App | Underwater inspection robot
#Syracuse University | Model calculatung the amount of free hydrogen gas produced and stored beneath the seafloor | Tectonic spreading rate | Thickness of serpentinized rocks | Serpentinized rocks: greenish-brown-patterned surface resemblung snakeskin -- have been chemically altered by water as lifted up by the spreading tectonic plates in Earth crust | Molecules of free hydrogen gas produced as by-product of serpentinization process | Stacey L. Worman, Lincoln F. Pratson, Jeffrey A. Karson, Emily M. Klein. Global rate and distribution of H2gas produced by serpentinization within oceanic lithosphere
#Australia Japan Cable | Subsea optical network | 12,700 kilometer (km) fiber network connecting Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan via Guam is installed at an average depth of 4,000-5,000 meters | Deep-sea optical network repairs | Infinera
#Infinera | Australia Japan Cable | High bandwidth super-channels | Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) | Special Processors | Pre-deploying bandwidth that is available when needed | Using Instant Bandwidth to activate that bandwidth on demand | Operationally complex deep-sea repair ship deployment
#LookOut | AI vision system | Synthesized data from charts, AIS, computer vision, and cloud fusing it into one 3D augmented reality view | Connects to existing boat display | Mountable camera system to the top of any boat | Lookout App for laptop, phone or tablet | Infrared vision | Night vision sensor | Spotting small vessels, floating debris, buoys, people in water | Blind spot detection | Backup camera | Temperature breaks, bird cluster locations, underwater structures for anglers | Camera streaming over WiFi to phones and tablets on the boat | Over-the-air (OTA) updates | Marine-grade water-proof enclosure | Integrated with satellite compass | National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) communication standard interface | Multifunction Display (MFD) | Multi-core CPU driving augmented reality compute stack | ClearCloud service | NVIDIA RTX GPU for real-time computer vision | DockWa app
#SiLC | Machine Vision solutions with FMCW LiDAR vision | FMCW at the 1550nm wavelength | Eyeonic Vision Sensor platform | Detecting vehicles and various obstacles from long distances | Honda Xcelerator Ventures | Honda Marine
#National Technical University of Athens | MariNeXt deep-learning framework detecting and identifying marine pollution | Sentinel-2 imagery | Detecting marine debris and oil spills on sea surface | Automated data collection and analysis across large spatial and temporal scales | Deep learning framework | Data augmentation techniques | Multi-scale convolutional attention network | Marine Debris and Oil Spill (MADOS) dataset | cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch framework | NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPUs | NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program | AI framework produced promising predictive maps | Shortcomings: unbalanced dataset, marine water and oil spills are abundant, foam and natural organic material are less represented
#King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | National Technical University of Athens
#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine
#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy
#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard
#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington