MariData: One-Step Unpaired Image Translation for Maritime Environments 文章

arXiv:2606.03246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development on robust perception systems for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) is heavily constrained by the scarcity of diverse training data, particularly for adverse weather and low-light conditions. Because collecting paired images in dynamic maritime environments is physically impossible, synthetic data generation via unpaired image-to-image translation offers a critical solution. However, existing generative models suffer from failing to preserve the fine structural details of small navigational objects due to latent compression bottlenecks. In this paper, we introduce a framework for generating synthetic maritime data using CycleGAN-turbo, a one-step unpaired translation architecture. By incorporating zero-convolution skip connections to bypass the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) bottleneck, our approach explicitly preserves small object details (e.g., distant vessels and sea marks) during translation.