Systems and methods for automatically identifying available docking positions using a vision system of a marine vessel

A method for automatically identifying available docking positions using a vision method of a marine vessel, the method comprising:

• identifying, based on image data captured using an imaging device, a dock instance,
• wherein the imaging device is configured to be mounted to the marine vessel with an associated field of view of an environment of the marine vessel;
• determining, based on the image data, whether the dock instance is available for docking;
• indicating that the dock instance is an available docking position;
• and
• causing the marine vessel to maneuver to the available docking position.

A system for automatically identifying available docking positions using a vision system of a marine vessel, the system comprising:

• a marine propulsion system comprising one or more propulsion devices;
• a display device;
• an input device;
• an imaging device,
• wherein the imaging device is configured to be mounted to the marine vessel with an associated field of view of an environment of the marine vessel;
• and
• one or more hardware processors configured to:
• capture an image using the imaging device;
• provide the image to a trained object detection model,
• wherein the trained object detection model is trained to identify instances of objects in image data corresponding to a plurality of classes, including a dock class;
• receive, from the trained object detection model, a dock bounding box indicative of a location and size of a dock instance in the image;
• provide the image data to a trained image segmentation model,
• wherein the trained image segmentation model is trained to classify each portion of image data as corresponding to a class of a second plurality of classes, including a water class;
• receive, from the trained image segmentation model, segmentation information indicative of a portions of the image classified as water;
• determine that no more than a threshold portion of the dock bounding box overlaps a bounding box of a different class of the plurality of classes;
• determine, based on the dock bounding box and the segmentation information, that the dock instance is unoccupied;
• present, using the display device, a graphical user interface that includes a model of the marine environment and a selectable user interface element corresponding to the dock instance;
• receive, via the input device, a selection of the selectable user interface element;
• and
• in response to selection of the selectable user interface element, control the marine propulsion system to automatically maneuver the marine vessel to dock at the dock instance without further user intervention.