# Fully Unsupervised Detection of Physical Contacts on Subsea Cables via State-of-Polarization Monitoring

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01484 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.01484/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 1 Jul 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Multi-Modal Fiber Sensing for OffshoreEnvironmental and Infrastructure Monitoring](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.26797/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

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 corroborated cable-contact events.