Infrared image recognition by means of FLIR cameras (forward-looking infrared) is one of the elements of the recognition of the maritime situation and it supports in many situations the creation of so-called maritime picture. This paper presents results of two FLIR image classifiers research. The first part presents the use of SVM (Support Vector Machine) to classify images of maritime objects, while the second part presents the classifier using the time series comparison method DTW (data time warping). The SVM network uses to perform the multi-class classification the oneagainst-all method. Both classifiers use the histograms of vertical projection of pre-processed FLIR images as input data (for training and testing). These histograms are created as a result of FLIR color images processing, including, among others, transformation of color images into grayscale images, grayscale images segmentation using the Otsu algorithm with a possible manual correction, rescaling, centering and leveling. In the further part of the work a method of determining the basic belief assignment is proposed for both SVM and DTW classifiers. In the final part of the paper test results of the both classification methods and their fusion by the Dempster's method for a set of maritime objects FLIR images registered in the Baltic Sea are presented.