Robust Learning with Noisy Ship Trajectories by Adaptive Noise Rate Estimation

Ship trajectory classification is of great significance for shipping analysis and marine security governance. However, in order to cover up their illegal fishing or espionage activities, some illicit ships will forge the ship type information in the Automatic Identification System (AIS), and this label noise will significantly impact the algorithm’s classification accuracy. Sample selection is a common and effective approach in the field of learning from noisy labels. However, most of the existing methods based on sample selection need to determine the noise rate of the data through prior means. To address these issues, we propose a noise rate adaptive learning mechanism that operates without prior conditions. This mechanism is integrated with the robust training paradigm JoCoR (joint training with co-regularization), giving rise to a noise rate adaptive learning robust training paradigm called A-JoCoR. Experimental results on real-world trajectories provided by the Danish Maritime Authority verified the effectiveness of A-JoCoR. It not only realizes the adaptive learning of the data noise rate during the training process, but also significantly improves the classification performance compared with the original method.