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I've used QGIS to tint the satellite imagery red, highlighted a few ships in green and used CARTO's dark basemap for geographical reference. I wasn't able to adjust OpenCV's settings within the allotted time box I had for this post so I wrapped the inference in a try/except statement so to not hold back the rest of the job. In this port in China, the confidence scores of some of the matches are pretty high but there are a huge number of ships that remain undetected.

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