Coronavirus born COVID-19 disease has spread its roots in the whole world. It is primarily spread by physical contact. As a preventive measure, proper crowd monitoring and management systems are required to be installed in public places to limit sudden outbreaks and impart improved healthcare. The number of new infections can be significantly reduced by adopting social distancing measures earlier. Motivated by this notion, a real-time crowd monitoring and management system for social distance classification is proposed in this research paper. In the proposed system, people are segregated from the background using the YOLO v4 object detection technique, and then the detected people are tracked by bounding boxes using the Deepsort technique. This system significantly helps in COVID-19 prevention by social distance detection and classification in public places using surveillance images and videos captured by the cameras installed in these places. The performance of this system has been assessed using mean average precision (mAP) and frames per second (FPS) metrics. It has also been evaluated by deploying it on Jetson Nano, a low-cost embedded system. The observed results show its suitability for real-time deployment in public places for COVID-19 prevention by social distance monitoring and classification.
8 March 2024 in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
Computer vision technologies have greatly improved in the last few years. Many problems have been solved using deep learning merged with more computational power. Action recognition is one of society's problems that must be addressed. Human Action Recognition (HAR) may be adopted for intelligent video surveillance systems, and the government may use the same for monitoring crimes and security purposes. This paper proposes a deep learning-based HAR model, i.e., a 3-dimensional Convolutional Network with multiplicative LSTM. The suggested model makes it easier to comprehend the tasks that an individual or team of individuals completes. The four-phase proposed model consists of a 3D Convolutional neural network (3DCNN) combined with an LSTM multiplicative recurrent network and Yolov6 for real-time object detection. The four stages of the proposed model are data fusion, feature extraction, object identification, and skeleton articulation approaches. The NTU-RGB-D, KITTI, NTU-RGB-D 120, UCF 101, and Fused datasets are some used to train the model. The suggested model surpasses other cutting-edge models by reaching an accuracy of 98.23%, 97.65%, 98.76%, 95.45%, and 97.65% on the abovementioned datasets. Other state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods compared in this study are traditional CNN, Yolov6, and CNN with BiLSTM. The results verify that actions are classified more accurately by the proposed model that combines all these techniques compared to existing ones.