The brand new CROSSMARE project kicked off on November 4 in Athens, Greece. R&D Spain attended the meeting and presented our company to the other consortium partners.
CROSSMARE is a EU funded Project, under the HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01 programme, with number 101225981. Crossmare aims to overcome existing challenges in border and maritime surveillance by introducing a layered maritime surveillance network and an interoperability framework that integrates the space, air, surface, and underwater domains within a comprehensive monitoring picture, enhancing MSA and surveillance capabilities. To achieve this, a consortium of 17 big industries, SMEs, RTOs, and end-users a) utilize cutting-edge technologies in the context of maritime surveillance, b) apply innovative AI algorithms, c) extend the capabilities of existing C2 and HMIs, d) and support the interoperability of novel and legacy surveillance systems, improving cross-border and cross agency collaboration.
Eviden leads WP5-WP6. Main effort is concentrated in the implementation of collaborative decision support, early warnings, AI, improved detection and anomaly detection services: Design and creation of a multi-modal data fusion service layer based on the use of VLM agents and a complementary decision support framework.
These elements will work by combining data acquired from heterogeneous sources/sensors and detection outcomes and will provide, as an output, recommendations and support mission management. The multi-modal fusion services will be designed to improve the detection capabilities and performance, reduce false detections and assess emerging threat incidents.
The service will identify anomalies and unusual patterns from different type of data structures (e.g., suspicious vessel activities, underwater threats, unusual patterns etc.) Additionally, we include explainability to help the user understand the chain of reasoning and also to show ‘heat maps’ of the detection.
The development of AI Agents that will be made for this project will allow us to complete our Agentic design tool. Also, the experience gathered in this project with Agents dedicated to a specific task, will be used in future developments in HPC and other business lines.