Seeing is only the beginning
Every vessel movement, every colour, every pattern on the water tells a story, but until now, those stories were often scattered and hard to follow. Especially when it came to small vessels, which too often slipped under the radar.
Our new Colour Recognition and Similar Vessel Search features change that. Together, they turn isolated detections into connected insights — helping you find, follow, and understand vessel activity faster than ever before.
Why Colour and Similarity Matter
For surveillance teams, identifying small vessels has always been a challenge. They appear, disappear, and reappear — sometimes minutes, sometimes hours apart — leaving teams to manually connect the dots.
With Colour Recognition and Similar Vessel Search, that work now happens instantly.
By automatically detecting vessel colours and identifying visual similarities between detections, Seagull makes it easier to find and follow the vessels that matter most. You can:
It’s a simple step with powerful results: instead of looking at endless footage, you look at what matters.
How it works
Colour Recognition is built directly into Seagull’s logbook. Each vessel detection is automatically analysed, and its colour extracted in real time. Users can then filter the logbook to quickly surface all vessels matching a particular colour — for example, “red” or “blue” — within seconds.
Similar Vessel Search starts from a single vessel detection. By selecting that detection, users can instantly search for other detections of visually similar vessels across the system. This makes it easy to trace possible reappearances, follow routes, and connect related events across time and place.
Both features work automatically, quietly, and fast — so users can stay focused on the mission instead of the manual work.
Who is it for?
These features are designed for surveillance teams who need to quickly identify or verify specific small vessels. Whether responding to an enquiry (“Did a red boat enter the harbour this morning?”) or analysing historical activity, users can now answer with confidence — and in seconds rather than hours.
A step toward continuous vessel tracking
With Colour Recognition and Similar Vessel Search, Seagull takes another step toward the bigger vision behind our work: See it and Solve it.
By making small vessels visible — and connecting their movements together — Seagull is laying the foundation for continuous vessel tracking. Soon, users will be able to follow individual vessels automatically across missions and over time, building a complete picture of behaviour and movement.
It’s more than smarter detection: it’s a shift from visibility to understanding — and from reacting to predicting.
Built together with our users
These features were born from collaboration between our product team and end users — real feedback turned into real value. Together, we explored how to make Seagull even more intuitive and practical for those on the front lines of maritime surveillance.
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