arxivcs.NIcs.AI2026-07-01
Fully Unsupervised Detection of Physical Contacts on Subsea Cables via State-of-Polarization Monitoring
Agastya Raj, Alvaro Doval, Tian Tian, Steinar Bjørnstad, Marco Ruffini
We present a fully unsupervised Fast-Slow DSVDD detector for continuous State-of-Polarization monitoring on a deployed subsea cable. Trained without event labels, it ranks all five confirmed trawler contacts within the top 13 of 122,174 recordings and surfaces additional corrobor…