Shipping is paramount, however, there is a crisis of whale strikes contributing to the decline of marine life populations.
Training crew to spot whales and enact suitable collision mitigation protocol is often difficult and time-consuming. Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are being investigated for the detection of whales, however, DNNs are sensitive to gradual changes in input data, for example, those occurring through whale aggregation. Therefore verified evidence and managing situational awareness is essential.
PREVAIL will develop a framework focused on the deployment of verified, explainable DNN, that will be the underpinning of an advisory system to reduce whale strikes.
