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Fast Personal Protective Equipment Detection for Real Construction Sites Using Deep Learning Approaches

Journal

SENSORS
Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s21103478

Keywords

PPE; construction safety; deep learning; You Only Look Once (YOLO); image dataset; real-time detection

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  1. Innovate UK [105881]
  2. Innovate UK [105881] Funding Source: UKRI

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This paper introduces an approach to train and evaluate eight deep learning detectors based on the YOLO architectures, aiming to improve the performance of existing PPE detectors for real construction sites. By constructing the CHV dataset considering real background, different gestures, and multiple PPE classes, the comparison among the eight models shows that YOLO v5x has the best mAP.
The existing deep learning-based Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) detectors can only detect limited types of PPE and their performance needs to be improved, particularly for their deployment on real construction sites. This paper introduces an approach to train and evaluate eight deep learning detectors, for real application purposes, based on You Only Look Once (YOLO) architectures for six classes, including helmets with four colours, person, and vest. Meanwhile, a dedicated high-quality dataset, CHV, consisting of 1330 images, is constructed by considering real construction site background, different gestures, varied angles and distances, and multi PPE classes. The comparison result among the eight models shows that YOLO v5x has the best mAP (86.55%), and YOLO v5s has the fastest speed (52 FPS) on GPU. The detection accuracy of helmet classes on blurred faces decreases by 7%, while there is no effect on other person and vest classes. And the proposed detectors trained on the CHV dataset have a superior performance compared to other deep learning approaches on the same datasets. The novel multiclass CHV dataset is open for public use.

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