Maritime Synthetic Data for Robust Physical AI Perception and Navigation

Maritime Synthetic Data for Robust Physical AI Perception and Navigation

Build autonomous systems for object detection, collision avoidance, automated lookout, threat perception, depth estimation and fine-grained classification.

Build autonomous systems for object detection, collision avoidance, automated lookout, threat perception, depth estimation and fine-grained classification.

Real Sensor Image

3D Simulated Sensor Image

lABELED DATASETS

Pixel-Perfect Labels & Scenario Metadata

Move beyond basic 2D boxes with precise segmentation and rich metadata, helping your AI gain deeper scenario understanding - no manual labeling required.

Move beyond basic 2D boxes with precise segmentation and rich metadata, helping your AI gain deeper scenario understanding - no manual labeling required.

DANGER

Collision Imminent

Type

Tugboat

Speed

9.67 Knots


Bearing

94.20 Degrees

Distance

63.59 Meters


DANGER

Collision Imminent

Type

Tugboat

Speed

9.67 Knots


Bearing

94.20 Degrees

Distance

63.59 Meters


DANGER

Breaching Whale

Type

Humpback Whale

Speed

3.83 Knots


Bearing

191.65 Degrees

Distance

39.73 Meters


Scenario Metadata

Time of day

4.35 PM

Fog Density

4%


Cloud Coverage

8%

Weather

Clear Skies


Scenario Metadata

Time of day

4.35 PM

Fog Density

4%


Cloud Coverage

8%

Weather

Clear Skies


CAUTION

Military Vessel

Type

Military Destroyer

Speed

12.89 Knots


Bearing

132.78 Degrees

Distance

1021.45 Meters


Simulate Every Maritime Condition Before Deployment

Simulate diverse maritime environments and weather conditions by generating synthetic data across various conditions, including fog, mist, rain, snow, high winds and night-time operations. Recreate critical scenarios that are rare or dangerous to capture in real-world training.

Simulate diverse maritime environments and weather conditions by generating synthetic data across various conditions, including fog, mist, rain, snow, high winds and night-time operations. Recreate critical scenarios that are rare or dangerous to capture in real-world training.

Maritime Depth Estimation & Ranging for Safe Navigation

Maritime Depth Estimation & Ranging for Safe Navigation

Generate high-quality labeled datasets that enable precise range estimation for object detection, automatic target recognition ( ATR ), collision avoidance, and safe navigation through congested waterways or narrow channels. Help maritime AI teams to accurately estimate distance and depth between vessels, floating obstacles, and shoreline structures in complex maritime environments.

Evaluating USVs with Time Series Scenarios

Evaluating USVs with Time Series Scenarios

Evaluate autonomous vessel behavior across mission timelines using synthetic time-series scenarios. Simulate changing sea states, vessel traffic, and sensor noise to reflect changing conditions. Continuously evaluate perception and navigation performance, using the F1 score to measure detection accuracy for robust USV operations.

Fine-grained Classification for Maritime AI

Fine-grained Classification for Maritime AI

Train AI models for fine-grained classification using high-quality synthetic maritime datasets built for precision. Accurately distinguish between similar vessel types, objects, and rare edge cases. Capturing subtle visual cues helps AI make better navigation decisions, increase operational reliability and reduce the risk of collisions. 

All-Weather USV Training in Extreme Sea States

All-Weather USV Training in Extreme Sea States

Train USVs to operate in high sea states and extreme conditions using synthetic data that replicates high waves and real-world environmental effects. Improve detection accuracy with labeled synthetic data that reduces training time and ensures reliable performance across all operational conditions.

Port Monitoring and Night-Time Harbor Entry with Sensor Fusion

Port Monitoring and Night-Time Harbor Entry with Sensor Fusion

Enable port monitoring and vessel detection in low-visibility, night-time conditions using a combination of fused Radar, Thermal, LiDAR, SAR, RGB, Stereo, SWIR, and MWIR sensors. Detect and track multiple vessels and unlit obstacles in congested harbor environments.

Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance in Shipping Lanes

Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance in Shipping Lanes

Advanced maritime AI enables real-time obstacle detection and collision monitoring in busy shipping lanes. Identify floating debris, buoys, and small craft with high accuracy and use predictive trajectory modeling to flag high-risk obstacles and trigger timely collision alerts for evasive action.

Asset library: Drag-and-Drop

Bifrost gives you access to thousands of assets from floating obstacles, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, and persons overboard to build realistic scenarios. Create complex maritime environments using a customizable asset library tailored to your use case.

Bifrost gives you access to thousands of assets from floating obstacles, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, and persons overboard to build realistic scenarios. Create complex maritime environments using a customizable asset library tailored to your use case.

Go beyond real-world data by introducing experimental objects like the killer tomato to test how perception models handle unexpected shapes and anomalies.

Go beyond real-world data by introducing experimental objects like the killer tomato to test how perception models handle unexpected shapes and anomalies.

Thousands of Vessels Ready for Scenario Generation

Thousands of Vessels Ready for Scenario Generation

Drag and drop from a curated library of commercial vessels, including oil tankers, container ships, bulk carriers, cruise liners, ferries, LPG tankers, cargo ships, and tugboats alongside defense vessels such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, patrol vessels, and minesweepers. 

Access maritime drones like USVs and a wide range of floating objects, including buoys, inflatables, and debris. Each asset is enriched with structured metadata to help teams build and train accurate maritime AI systems using high-quality synthetic data.

Build Complex Maritime Scenarios in Minutes

Build Complex Maritime Scenarios in Minutes

Use a point-and-click interface to position vessels, set traffic patterns, configure sensor placements, and adjust conditions, no coding required. Generate thousands of labeled training images to improve model performance and reliability, reducing the frequency of manual takeovers.

Automated Data Labeling for Maritime AI

Bifrost helps build automated data labeling for maritime perception systems, enabling unlimited object detection, image classification, and segmentation datasets with pixel-perfect annotations and accurate bounding boxes at scale.

Bifrost helps build automated data labeling for maritime perception systems, enabling unlimited object detection, image classification, and segmentation datasets with pixel-perfect annotations and accurate bounding boxes at scale.

Maritime Surveillance from Satellites

High-fidelity synthetic simulations enabling vessel and aircraft detection in mission-critical scenarios. Monitor military and commercial activity, piracy, illegal trade, geopolitical choke points, conflict zones and contested waters.

High-fidelity synthetic simulations enabling vessel and aircraft detection in mission-critical scenarios. Monitor military and commercial activity, piracy, illegal trade, geopolitical choke points, conflict zones and contested waters.

Military Vessel Detection & USV Patrolling for Defense Operations

Military Vessel Detection & USV Patrolling for Defense Operations

Detect approaching military vessels using computer vision models trained on synthetic multi-sensor data designed for all-weather maritime defense scenarios. Deploy virtual USVs for port defense patrols, simulating continuous surveillance coverage to detect and respond to potential intrusion threats.

Port Monitoring & Maritime Defense Operations

Port Monitoring & Maritime Defense Operations

Simulate large-scale port security and coastal defense environments with high fidelity to recreate complex maritime scenarios. Train AI systems for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), enabling real-time threat detection, anomaly identification, and coordinated response across dynamic maritime domains.

Maritime Threat Classification & Border Security

Maritime Threat Classification & Border Security

Leverage multi-modal synthetic data combining visual, thermal, and radar signatures to help the Navy and maritime security forces distinguish between civilian and military vessels while simulating real-world scenarios such as piracy, smuggling, illegal fishing, unauthorized crossings, and suspicious vessel activity in territorial waters.

Hazard Detection for Safe and Autonomous Navigation

Hazard Detection for Safe and Autonomous Navigation

Detect navigational hazards like floating debris, damaged buoys, and uncharted obstacles with AI-trained maritime systems. Synthetic maritime generation recreates rough seas, low visibility, and congested shipping lanes, enabling early risk identification. 

Simulating Marine Wildlife Detection for Maritime AI

Simulating Marine Wildlife Detection for Maritime AI

Train maritime AI systems to detect marine mammals such as breaching whales and dolphins, often traveling in pods, across diverse ocean conditions. Simulate varying sea states, lighting, and perspectives to strengthen wildlife detection capabilities and enable safer, more compliant maritime operations.

FEATURES

Build Robust Maritime AI In Record Time

sCENARIOS

Recreate Critical Scenarios & Ensure Safe Navigation

Recreate Critical Scenarios & Ensure Safe Navigation

Ensure your AI systems aren’t missing detections of high-risk obstacles without waiting weeks to send another boat out for data collection. With Bifrost you can generate data across a variety of critical conditions - from varying visibility conditions, congestion levels, sea states and across a range of marine targets.

EDGE CASES

Remain Agile to Collision-Detection Edge Cases

Remain Agile to Collision-Detection Edge Cases

Bifrost gives you access to hundreds of assets - from floating obstacles, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, and persons overboard - to populate your maritime scenarios. Can't find what you need? Upload your own or have us generate custom assets to meet to your exact specifications.

SENSOR

Advanced Sensor Emulation

Advanced Sensor Emulation

Our range of pre-build sensors (RGB, Stereo, SWIR, MWIR) are easily configurable to match your existing autonomy stack and sensor fusion specifications. Match your view angles, environmental effects (fog, mist or lens flare) or recreate multi-sensor arrangements.

cONSISTENCY

Deliver Capability Improvements Quickly & Consistently

Deliver Capability Improvements Quickly & Consistently

Don’t waste hours sifting through raw footage, coordinating with external labeling partners and doing QA. Focus on what you do best and generating the exact data you need, whenever you need it. All data generated comes perfectly labeled and immediately ready for training.

Data Budget

Data Budget

Before

Before

Over 50% Cost Reduction

Over 50% Cost Reduction

After

After

rOI

Unlock Cost-Effective, Scalable AI Development

Unlock Cost-Effective, Scalable AI Development

Save up to 50% of data-related costs by leveraging Bifrost. Scale to hundreds of fine-grained classes without having to worry about exploding data budgets.

Unlock Unlimited Maritime Datasets

Unlock Unlimited Maritime Datasets

Unlock Unlimited Maritime Datasets