scholarly journals Masked Face Detection Algorithm in the Dense Crowd Based on Federated Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Rui Zhu ◽  
Kangning Yin ◽  
Hang Xiong ◽  
Hailian Tang ◽  
Guangqiang Yin
Keyword(s):  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Surveillance Video ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Face Location ◽  
The Face ◽  
Computer Vision Technology ◽  
Dense Crowds ◽  
Dense Crowd

Wearing masks is an effective and simple method to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in public places, such as train stations, classrooms, and streets. It is of positive significance to urge people to wear masks with computer vision technology. However, the existing detection methods are mainly for simple scenes, and facial missing detection is prone to occur in dense crowds with different scales and occlusions. Moreover, the data obtained by surveillance cameras in public places are difficult to be collected for centralized training, due to the privacy of individuals. In order to solve these problems, a cascaded network is proposed: the first level is the Dilation RetinaNet Face Location (DRFL) Network, which contains Enhanced Receptive Field Context (ERFC) module with the dilation convolution, aiming to reduce network parameters and locate faces of different scales. In order to adapt to embedded camera devices, the second level is the SRNet20 network, which is created by Neural Architecture Search (NAS). Due to privacy protection, it is difficult for surveillance video to share in practice, so our SRNet20 network is trained in federated learning. Meanwhile, we have made a masked face dataset containing about 20,000 images. Finally, the experiments highlight that the detection mAP of the face location is 90.6% on the Wider Face dataset, and the classification mAP of the masked face classification is 98.5% on the dataset we made, which means our cascaded network can detect masked faces in dense crowd scenes well.

Research on Crack Detection Algorithm of Mining Car Baffle

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiwei Li ◽  
Fanlei Yan
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Edge Detection ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Crack Identification ◽  
Actual Length ◽  
Computer Vision Technology ◽  
Sobel Edge Detection

Introduction: Image processing technology is widely used for crack detection. This technology is to build a data acquisition system and use computer vision technology for image analysis. Because of its simplicity in the processing, many of the image processing detection methods were proposed. It is relatively easy to deploy and has low cost. Method: The heterogeneity of the external light usually changes the authenticity of each target in the image, which will seriously cause the experiment to fail. At this time, the image needs to be processed by the gamma transform.Based on the analysis of the characteristics of the image of the mine car baffle, this paper improves the Gamma transform, and uses the improved Gamma transform to enhance the image. Result: We can conclude that the algorithm in this paper can accurately detect crack areas with an actual width greater than 1.2 mm, and the error between the detected crack length and the actual length is between (-2, 2) mm. In practice, this error is completely acceptable. Discussion: To compare the performance of a new crack detection method with existing methods, are used. The two most well-known traditional methods, Canny and Sobel edge detection, are selected. Although the Sobel edge detection provides some crack information. The texture of the surface of the mine cart baffle detected has caused great interference to the crack identification. Conclusion: If the cracks appearing on the mine car baffle are not found in time, they often cause accidents. Therefore, effective crack detection must be performed. If manual inspection is adopted for crack detection, it will be labor-intensive and easy to miss inspection. In order to reduce the labor of crack detection of mine cars and improve the accuracy of detection, this paper, based on the detection platform built, performs preprocessing, image enhancement, and convolution operations on the collected crack images of the mine car baffle.

scholarly journals Exploration of Face Detection Methods in Digital Images

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 12130-12136
Keyword(s):  
Face Detection ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Survey Paper ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Face

Face detection is a challenging computer vision task that identifies and localizes the faces of human beings from digital images or video streams. It is predominantly the first phase in the process of developing a wide range of face applications such as face recognition, emotion recognition, authentication, surveillance systems etc. The process of face detection is easy from the human perspective but, a complex task for computers that involves searching of the face in variable circumstances of pose, colour, size, occlusion, illumination etc. If the outcome of face detection is intended to be input for another algorithm, an accurate, well informed selection of an appropriate face detection technique is essential because the overall performance of face application is dependent on face detection algorithm’s precision. The survey paper presents a review of three commonly used face detection algorithms available in literature namely Viola Jones, Neural networks (NN) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) for the purpose of ascertaining the most suitable face detection algorithm to implement for our future work in developing an ‘Online student concentration level recognition system’.

scholarly journals Modelling community structure and temporal spreading on complex networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesa Kuikka
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Detection Methods

AbstractWe present methods for analysing hierarchical and overlapping community structure and spreading phenomena on complex networks. Different models can be developed for describing static connectivity or dynamical processes on a network topology. In this study, classical network connectivity and influence spreading models are used as examples for network models. Analysis of results is based on a probability matrix describing interactions between all pairs of nodes in the network. One popular research area has been detecting communities and their structure in complex networks. The community detection method of this study is based on optimising a quality function calculated from the probability matrix. The same method is proposed for detecting underlying groups of nodes that are building blocks of different sub-communities in the network structure. We present different quantitative measures for comparing and ranking solutions of the community detection algorithm. These measures describe properties of sub-communities: strength of a community, probability of formation and robustness of composition. The main contribution of this study is proposing a common methodology for analysing network structure and dynamics on complex networks. We illustrate the community detection methods with two small network topologies. In the case of network spreading models, time development of spreading in the network can be studied. Two different temporal spreading distributions demonstrate the methods with three real-world social networks of different sizes. The Poisson distribution describes a random response time and the e-mail forwarding distribution describes a process of receiving and forwarding messages.

scholarly journals A generalised approach for high-throughput instance segmentation of stomata in microscope images

Plant Methods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiranya Jayakody ◽  
Paul Petrie ◽  
Hugo Jan de Boer ◽  
Mark Whitty
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Sample Collection ◽  
High Throughput Analysis ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Additional Image ◽  
Bounding Boxes

Abstract Background Stomata analysis using microscope imagery provides important insight into plant physiology, health and the surrounding environmental conditions. Plant scientists are now able to conduct automated high-throughput analysis of stomata in microscope data, however, existing detection methods are sensitive to the appearance of stomata in the training images, thereby limiting general applicability. In addition, existing methods only generate bounding-boxes around detected stomata, which require users to implement additional image processing steps to study stomata morphology. In this paper, we develop a fully automated, robust stomata detection algorithm which can also identify individual stomata boundaries regardless of the plant species, sample collection method, imaging technique and magnification level. Results The proposed solution consists of three stages. First, the input image is pre-processed to remove any colour space biases occurring from different sample collection and imaging techniques. Then, a Mask R-CNN is applied to estimate individual stomata boundaries. The feature pyramid network embedded in the Mask R-CNN is utilised to identify stomata at different scales. Finally, a statistical filter is implemented at the Mask R-CNN output to reduce the number of false positive generated by the network. The algorithm was tested using 16 datasets from 12 sources, containing over 60,000 stomata. For the first time in this domain, the proposed solution was tested against 7 microscope datasets never seen by the algorithm to show the generalisability of the solution. Results indicated that the proposed approach can detect stomata with a precision, recall, and F-score of 95.10%, 83.34%, and 88.61%, respectively. A separate test conducted by comparing estimated stomata boundary values with manually measured data showed that the proposed method has an IoU score of 0.70; a 7% improvement over the bounding-box approach. Conclusions The proposed method shows robust performance across multiple microscope image datasets of different quality and scale. This generalised stomata detection algorithm allows plant scientists to conduct stomata analysis whilst eliminating the need to re-label and re-train for each new dataset. The open-source code shared with this project can be directly deployed in Google Colab or any other Tensorflow environment.

scholarly journals High-Speed Lightweight Ship Detection Algorithm Based on YOLO-V4 for Three-Channels RGB SAR Image

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1909
Author(s):  
Jiahuan Jiang ◽  
Xiongjun Fu ◽  
Rui Qin ◽  
Xiaoyan Wang ◽  
Zhifeng Ma
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Gpu Computing ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Sar Image ◽  
Marine Monitoring ◽  
Ship Detection

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has become one of the important technical means of marine monitoring in the field of remote sensing due to its all-day, all-weather advantage. National territorial waters to achieve ship monitoring is conducive to national maritime law enforcement, implementation of maritime traffic control, and maintenance of national maritime security, so ship detection has been a hot spot and focus of research. After the development from traditional detection methods to deep learning combined methods, most of the research always based on the evolving Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing power to propose more complex and computationally intensive strategies, while in the process of transplanting optical image detection ignored the low signal-to-noise ratio, low resolution, single-channel and other characteristics brought by the SAR image imaging principle. Constantly pursuing detection accuracy while ignoring the detection speed and the ultimate application of the algorithm, almost all algorithms rely on powerful clustered desktop GPUs, which cannot be implemented on the frontline of marine monitoring to cope with the changing realities. To address these issues, this paper proposes a multi-channel fusion SAR image processing method that makes full use of image information and the network’s ability to extract features; it is also based on the latest You Only Look Once version 4 (YOLO-V4) deep learning framework for modeling architecture and training models. The YOLO-V4-light network was tailored for real-time and implementation, significantly reducing the model size, detection time, number of computational parameters, and memory consumption, and refining the network for three-channel images to compensate for the loss of accuracy due to light-weighting. The test experiments were completed entirely on a portable computer and achieved an Average Precision (AP) of 90.37% on the SAR Ship Detection Dataset (SSDD), simplifying the model while ensuring a lead over most existing methods. The YOLO-V4-lightship detection algorithm proposed in this paper has great practical application in maritime safety monitoring and emergency rescue.

scholarly journals Low Complexity Lane Detection Methods for Light Photometry System

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 1665
Author(s):  
Jakub Suder ◽  
Kacper Podbucki ◽  
Tomasz Marciniak ◽  
Adam Dąbrowski
Keyword(s):  
Edge Detection ◽  
Optimal Path ◽  
Color Space ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Lane Detection ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Line Detection ◽  
Hsv Color Space

The aim of the paper was to analyze effective solutions for accurate lane detection on the roads. We focused on effective detection of airport runways and taxiways in order to drive a light-measurement trailer correctly. Three techniques for video-based line extracting were used for specific detection of environment conditions: (i) line detection using edge detection, Scharr mask and Hough transform, (ii) finding the optimal path using the hyperbola fitting line detection algorithm based on edge detection and (iii) detection of horizontal markings using image segmentation in the HSV color space. The developed solutions were tuned and tested with the use of embedded devices such as Raspberry Pi 4B or NVIDIA Jetson Nano.

scholarly journals Abnormal Prediction of Dense Crowd Videos by a Purpose–Driven Lattice Boltzmann Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiran Xue ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Ye Tao ◽  
Xianglong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Lattice Boltzmann ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Lattice Boltzmann Model ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Particle Collisions ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Dense Crowds ◽  
Dense Crowd ◽  
Boltzmann Model ◽  
Abnormal Events

Abstract In the field of intelligent crowd video analysis, the prediction of abnormal events in dense crowds is a well-known and challenging problem. By analysing crowd particle collisions and characteristics of individuals in a crowd to follow the general trend of motion, a purpose-driven lattice Boltzmann model (LBM) is proposed. The collision effect in the proposed method is measured according to the variation in crowd particle numbers in the image nodes; characteristics of the crowd following a general trend are incorporated by adjusting the particle directions. The model predicts dense crowd abnormal events in different intervals through iterations of simultaneous streaming and collision steps. Few initial frames of a video are needed to initialize the proposed model and no training procedure is required. Experimental results show that our purpose-driven LBM performs better than most state-of-the-art methods.

Revisiting knowledge distillation for light-weight visual object detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (13) ◽  
pp. 2888-2898
Author(s):  
Tianze Gao ◽  
Yunfeng Gao ◽  
Yu Li ◽  
Peiyuan Qin
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Positive Sample ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Visual Object ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Model Compression ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Knowledge Distillation

An essential element for intelligent perception in mechatronic and robotic systems (M&RS) is the visual object detection algorithm. With the ever-increasing advance of artificial neural networks (ANN), researchers have proposed numerous ANN-based visual object detection methods that have proven to be effective. However, networks with cumbersome structures do not befit the real-time scenarios in M&RS, necessitating the techniques of model compression. In the paper, a novel approach to training light-weight visual object detection networks is developed by revisiting knowledge distillation. Traditional knowledge distillation methods are oriented towards image classification is not compatible with object detection. Therefore, a variant of knowledge distillation is developed and adapted to a state-of-the-art keypoint-based visual detection method. Two strategies named as positive sample retaining and early distribution softening are employed to yield a natural adaption. The mutual consistency between teacher model and student model is further promoted through a hint-based distillation. By extensive controlled experiments, the proposed method is testified to be effective in enhancing the light-weight network’s performance by a large margin.

scholarly journals State model based face mask detection

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.22) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Kavitha M ◽  
Mohamed Mansoor Roomi S ◽  
K Priya ◽  
Bavithra Devi K
Keyword(s):  
Face Mask ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
State Model ◽  
Face Region ◽  
Automatic Teller Machine ◽  
Foreground Region ◽  
The Face ◽  
Surveillance Mechanism

The Automatic Teller Machine plays an important role in the modern economic society. ATM centers are located in remote central which are at high risk due to the increasing crime rate and robbery.These ATM centers assist with surveillance techniques to provide protection. Even after installing the surveillance mechanism, the robbers fool the security system by hiding their face using mask/helmet. Henceforth, an automatic mask detection algorithm is required to, alert when the ATM is at risk. In this work, the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is applied for foreground detection to extract the regions of interest (ROI) i.e. Human being. Face region is acquired from the foreground region through  the torso partitioning and applying Viola-Jones algorithm in this search space. Parts of the face such as Eye pair, Nose, and Mouth are extracted and a state model is developed to detect  mask.  

Research and Implementation of Face Detection Based on OpenCV

2014 ◽  
Vol 971-973 ◽  
pp. 1710-1713
Author(s):  
Wen Huan Wu ◽  
Ying Jun Zhao ◽  
Yong Fei Che
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Face Detection ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Face Recognition System ◽  
The Face

Face detection is the key point in automatic face recognition system. This paper introduces the face detection algorithm with a cascade of Adaboost classifiers and how to configure OpenCV in MCVS. Using OpenCV realized the face detection. And a detailed analysis of the face detection results is presented. Through experiment, we found that the method used in this article has a high accuracy rate and better real-time.

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