This project is to detect ships on satellite images using Mask R-CNN which is a deep neural network used to solve instance segmentation problems. This generates bounding boxes and masks around each ship detected in the satellite image.

This repository includes the following,

• Dataset - Contains both train and validation images which were obtained by taking screenshots of several ports from Google Earth.
• Annotations - Images were annotated using VGG Images Annotator
• Pre-trained weights for MS COCO - Transfer learning approach is used here. Even though, COCO dataset does not contain ship class, it has been trained on 120k other images which means its weights have learnt a lot of common features of natural images which is useful for this project. https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN/releases/download/v2.0/mask_rcnn_coco.h5
• Third Party Mask R-CNN implementation - Obtained from Mask R-CNN project by Matterport https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN.

Some of the predicted images obtained from the trained model were as follows.