Abstract
Ensuring maritime port security—a rapidly increasing concern in a post-9/11 world—presents certain operational challenges. As batteries and electric motors grow increasingly lighter and more powerful, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been shown to be capable of enhancing a surveillance system’s capabilities and mitigating its vulnerabilities. In this paper, we looked at the current role unmanned systems are playing in port security and proposed an image-based method to enhance port security. The proposed method uses UAV real-time videos to detect and identify humans via human body detection and facial recognition. Experiments evaluated the system in real-time under differing environmental, daylight, and weather conditions. Three parameters were used to test feasibility: distance, height and angle. The findings suggest UAVs as an affordable, effective tool that may greatly enhance port safety and security.
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