Yuefan Liu, Ducheng Zhang, Chen Guo^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.2, pp. 3281-3299, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.057294 - 18 November 2024

Abstract Craniocerebral injuries represent the primary cause of fatalities among riders involved in two-wheeler accidents; nevertheless, the prevalence of helmet usage among these riders remains alarmingly low. Consequently, the accurate identification of riders who are wearing safety helmets is of paramount importance. Current detection algorithms exhibit several limitations, including inadequate accuracy, substantial model size, and suboptimal performance in complex environments with small targets. To address these challenges, we propose a novel lightweight detection algorithm, termed GL-YOLOv5, which is an enhancement of the You Only Look Once version 5 (YOLOv5) framework. This model incorporates a Global DualPooling… More >

Licheng Sun¹, Heping Li^2,3, Liang Wang^1,4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 4543-4560, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.055115 - 12 September 2024

Abstract It is crucial to ensure workers wear safety helmets when working at a workplace with a high risk of safety accidents, such as construction sites and mine tunnels. Although existing methods can achieve helmet detection in images, their accuracy and speed still need improvements since complex, cluttered, and large-scale scenes of real workplaces cause server occlusion, illumination change, scale variation, and perspective distortion. So, a new safety helmet-wearing detection method based on deep learning is proposed. Firstly, a new multi-scale contextual aggregation module is proposed to aggregate multi-scale feature information globally and highlight the details… More >

Yahia Said^1,*, Yahya Alassaf², Refka Ghodhbani³, Yazan Ahmad Alsariera⁴, Taoufik Saidani³, Olfa Ben Rhaiem⁴, Mohamad Khaled Makhdoum¹, Manel Hleili⁵

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.141, No.1, pp. 733-749, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.052369 - 20 August 2024

Abstract Enhancing road safety globally is imperative, especially given the significant portion of traffic-related fatalities attributed to motorcycle accidents resulting from non-compliance with helmet regulations. Acknowledging the critical role of helmets in rider protection, this paper presents an innovative approach to helmet violation detection using deep learning methodologies. The primary innovation involves the adaptation of the PerspectiveNet architecture, transitioning from the original Res2Net to the more efficient EfficientNet v2 backbone, aimed at bolstering detection capabilities. Through rigorous optimization techniques and extensive experimentation utilizing the India driving dataset (IDD) for training and validation, the system demonstrates exceptional More >

Qunyue Mu^1,2, Qiancheng Yu^1,2,*, Chengchen Zhou^1,2, Lei Liu^1,2, Xulong Yu^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 449-466, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051728 - 18 July 2024

Abstract Wearing helmets while riding electric bicycles can significantly reduce head injuries resulting from traffic accidents. To effectively monitor compliance, the utilization of target detection algorithms through traffic cameras plays a vital role in identifying helmet usage by electric bicycle riders and recognizing license plates on electric bicycles. However, manual enforcement by traffic police is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Traditional methods face challenges in accurately identifying small targets such as helmets and license plates using deep learning techniques. This paper proposes an enhanced model for detecting helmets and license plates on electric bicycles, addressing these challenges. The More >

Zerui Xiao, Wei Liu, Zhiwei Ye^*, Jiatang Yuan, Shishi Liu

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.4, pp. 1009-1029, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.040475 - 17 July 2024

Abstract Nowadays, construction site safety accidents are frequent, and wearing safety helmets is essential to prevent head injuries caused by object collisions and falls. However, existing helmet detection algorithms have several drawbacks, including a complex structure with many parameters, high calculation volume, and poor detection of small helmets, making deployment on embedded or mobile devices difficult. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a YOLOv5-based multi-head detection safety helmet detection algorithm that is faster and more robust for detecting helmets on construction sites. By replacing the traditional DarkNet backbone network of YOLOv5s with a new backbone… More >

Xiaoqin Wu, Songrong Qian^*, Ming Yang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3349-3366, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.043671 - 26 December 2023

Abstract Safety helmets can reduce head injuries from object impacts and lower the probability of safety accidents, as well as being of great significance to construction safety. However, for a variety of reasons, construction workers nowadays may not strictly enforce the rules of wearing safety helmets. In order to strengthen the safety of construction site, the traditional practice is to manage it through methods such as regular inspections by safety officers, but the cost is high and the effect is poor. With the popularization and application of construction site video monitoring, manual video monitoring has been… More >

Hongyu Lin, Feng Jiang^*, Yu Jiang, Huiyin Luo, Jian Yao, Jiaxin Liu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.3, pp. 5321-5336, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.036893 - 29 April 2023

Abstract Detecting non-motor drivers’ helmets has significant implications for traffic control. Currently, most helmet detection methods are susceptible to the complex background and need more accuracy and better robustness of small object detection, which are unsuitable for practical application scenarios. Therefore, this paper proposes a new helmet-wearing detection algorithm based on the You Only Look Once version 5 (YOLOv5). First, the Dilated convolution In Coordinate Attention (DICA) layer is added to the backbone network. DICA combines the coordinated attention mechanism with atrous convolution to replace the original convolution layer, which can increase the perceptual field of… More >

N. A. Maidin^1,2, S. M. Sapuan^1,*, M. T. Mastura², M. Y. M. Zuhri¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.11, No.5, pp. 2381-2397, 2023, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.026549 - 13 February 2023

Abstract Natural fibre reinforced polymer composite (NFRPC) materials are gaining popularity in the modern world due to their eco-friendliness, lightweight nature, life-cycle superiority, biodegradability, low cost, and noble mechanical properties. Due to the wide variety of materials available that have comparable attributes and satisfy the requirements of the product design specification, material selection has become a crucial component of design for engineers. This paper discusses the study’s findings in choosing the suitable thermoplastic matrices of Natural Fibre Composites for Cyclist Helmet utilising the DMAIC, and GRA approaches. The results are based on integrating two decision methods More >

NaeJoung Kwak¹, DongJu Kim^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 1671-1686, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035762 - 06 February 2023

Abstract This paper proposes a method for detecting a helmet for the safety of workers from risk factors and a mask worn indoors and verifying a worker’s identity while wearing a helmet and mask for security. The proposed method consists of a part for detecting the worker’s helmet and mask and a part for verifying the worker’s identity. An algorithm for helmet and mask detection is generated by transfer learning of Yolov5’s s-model and m-model. Both models are trained by changing the learning rate, batch size, and epoch. The model with the best performance is selected… More >

Kisaezehra¹, Muhammad Umer Farooq^1,*, Muhammad Aslam Bhutto², Abdul Karim Kazi¹

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.1, pp. 911-927, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.031359 - 29 September 2022

Abstract The construction industry has always remained the economic and social backbone of any country in the world where occupational health and safety (OHS) is of prime importance. Like in other developing countries, this industry pays very little, rather negligible attention to OHS practices in Pakistan, resulting in the occurrence of a wide variety of accidents, mishaps, and near-misses every year. One of the major causes of such mishaps is the non-wearing of safety helmets (hard hats) at construction sites where falling objects from a height are unavoidable. In most cases, this leads to serious brain… More >