Real Time Deep Learning Weapon Detection Techniques for Mitigating Lone Wolf Attacks

Firearm Shootings and stabbings attacks are intense and result in severe trauma and threat to public safety. Technology is needed to prevent lone-wolf attacks without human supervision. Hence designing an automatic weapon detection using deep learning, is an optimized solution to localize and detect the presence of weapon objects using Neural Networks. This research focuses on both unified and II-stage object detectors whose resultant model not only detects the presence of weapons but also classifies with respective to its weapon classes, including handgun, knife, revolver, and rifle, along with person detection. This research focuses on (You Look Only Once) family and Faster RCNN family for model validation and training. Pruning and Ensembling techniques were applied to YOLOv5 to enhance their speed and performance. However, Faster R-CNN models achieve the highest AP 89%. NTRODUCTION Most deaths globally involve weapons which have a traumatic impact on health and psychological and economic costs. According to Gun Violence Archive, 44266-gun violence deaths are recorded [1] in the United States, which would cost around $ 557 billion as an economic consequence [2]. To achieve peace and enhance safety, it is highly required to reduce gun violence globally.