🤖 AI Summary
This study addresses the limitations imposed by domain shift, data sparsity, and class imbalance in Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, which hinder the performance of maritime prediction models. To overcome these challenges, the work proposes an unsupervised domain translation framework based on CycleGAN for AIS trajectory augmentation, eliminating the need for paired training data. The approach integrates a 1D convolutional generator with adaptive noise injection to synthesize high-fidelity trajectories while preserving their spatiotemporal structure. Experimental results demonstrate that the generated data significantly enhance both diversity and realism, leading to superior performance across multiple regression baselines, achieving a PSNR of 30.5 and an FID of 38.9—outperforming existing GAN-based augmentation methods.
📝 Abstract
Automatic Identification System (AIS) data are vital for maritime domain awareness, yet they often suffer from domain shifts, data sparsity, and class imbalance, which hinder the performance of predictive models. In this paper, we propose a robust data augmentation method, AISCycleGen, based on Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN), which is tailored for AIS datasets. Unlike traditional methods, AISCycleGen leverages unpaired domain translation to generate high-fidelity synthetic AIS data sequences without requiring paired source-target data. The framework employs a 1D convolutional generator with adaptive noise injection to preserve the spatiotemporal structure of AIS trajectories, enhancing the diversity and realism of the generated data. To demonstrate its efficacy, we apply AISCycleGen to several baseline regression models, showing improvements in performance across various maritime domains. The results indicate that AISCycleGen outperforms contemporary GAN-based augmentation techniques, achieving a PSNR value of 30.5 and an FID score of 38.9. These findings underscore AISCycleGen's potential as an effective and generalizable solution for augmenting AIS datasets, improving downstream model performance in real-world maritime intelligence applications.