Technology and digitalisation are transforming the shipping industry. ‘Smart’ ships are coming into service, creating demand for a new generation of competent, highly-skilled maritime professionals. Europe is a traditional global source of maritime expertise and the four-year SKILLSEA project is launched with the aim of ensuring that the region’s maritime professionals possess key digital, green […]
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An Overview of Recent Changes in the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System Regarding Maritime Mobile Satellite Service
For a long time, Inmarsat satellite system was the only maritime mobile satellite service provider when Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is concerned. This satellite system has different generations of its satellites providing a wide range of services and applications. In 2018, its services related to the GMDSS have migrated to a newer […]
Organized Congress “2nd Conference on Machine Learning for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Control Systems”
A congress “2nd Conference on Machine Learning for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Control Systems” was organized at the Faculty of Engineering with the participation of some of the leading scientists in the fields of physics, signal processing, and artificial intelligence from 20 countries. The conference was organized at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka […]
Multi3Generation: Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation
Language generation (LG) is a crucial technology if machines are to communicate with humans seamlessly using human natural language. A great number of different tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP) are language generation tasks, and being able to effectively perform these tasks implies (1) that machines are equipped with world knowledge that can require multi-modal […]
Maritime Cyber Risk Management: An Experimental Ship Assessment
The maritime transport industry is increasingly reliant on computing and communication technologies, and the need for cyber risk management of critical systems and assets on vessels is becoming critically important. In this paper, a comprehensive cyber risk assessment of a ship is presented. An experimental process consisting of assessment preparation activities, assess- ment conduct and […]
Language guidance tool for improving language knowledge
In line with EU language policy and its efforts to promote mobility and intercultural understanding, language acquisition and multilingualism represent important elements of the EU’s language policy, promoting the knowledge of 2 languages in addition to the mother tongue. In line with the linguistic background of the EU policy the project “LanGuide” is focused on […]
Invited talk at SSIP 2019
Ivan Štajduhar gave a lecture titled “Everything you never wanted to know about machine learning, but were forced to find out” at the 2019 Summer School on Image Processing (SSIP) in Timisoara, Romania, on July 10, 2019. https://www.info.uvt.ro/ssip2019/
Analysis of Primary Position Validation in ECDIS System
The mandatory ECDIS transitional period has ended just recently. The technology matured and the progress towards the ECDIS as a primary means of navigation has continued. Safe and effective navigation mostly relies on accurate and valid positioning despite the system’s technological advancement. In general, the frequency of plotting and monitoring of ship’s position depends on […]
Kristijan Lenac held an invited lecture at the DREAMS 3rd IAB Workshop in Madrid
Kristijan Lenac held an invited lecture “Blockchain – Basic concepts and applicability” at the DREAMS 3rd IAB Workshop in Madrid on 23rd of May 2019. in Madrid, Spain. The lecture presented an introduction to the blockchain technology with the focus on its applications to systems that generate, maintain and distribute information to aviation.
Translation Error Analysis in TREAT: A Windows App Using the MQM Framework
The aim of this research paper is to conduct a thorough analysis of inter-annotator agreement in the process of error analysis, which is well-known for its subjectivity and low level of agreement. Since the process is tiresome in its nature and the available user interfaces are pretty distinct from what the average annotator is accustomed […]
