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Target Detection of Safety Protective Gear Using the Improved YOLOv5
In high-risk railway construction, personal protective equipment monitoring is critical but challenging due to small and frequently obstructed targets. We propose YOLO-EA, an innovative model that enhances safety measure detection by integrating ECA into its backbone's convolutional layers, improving discernment of minuscule objects like hardhats. YOLO-EA further refines target recognition under occlusion by replacing GIoU with EIoU loss. YOLO-EA's effectiveness was empirically substantiated using a dataset derived from real-world railway construction site surveillance footage. It outperforms YOLOv5, achieving 98.9% precision and 94.7% recall, up 2.5% and 0.5% respectively, while maintaining real-time performance at 70.774 fps. This highly efficient and precise YOLO-EA holds great promise for practical application in intricate construction scenarios, enforcing stringent safety compliance during complex railway construction projects.
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How Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Workplace Safety?
Digitalization has taken over every walk of life, be it something as simple as buying a flight ticket, booking a movie, or ordering food. We are surrounded by innovations in technology like Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Robotics, and more. Today artificial intelligence has worked wonders in arenas of problem-solving, learning, object detection, and others for household, industrial and commercial applications. One of the prime areas where AI is proving its potential for innovations and breakthroughs is electrical safety. AI can help to reduce human intervention and drastically reduce the factor of human error.
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CPPE-5: Medical Personal Protective Equipment Dataset
Dagli, Rishit, Shaikh, Ali Mustufa
We present a new challenging dataset, CPPE - 5 (Medical Personal Protective Equipment), with the goal to allow the study of subordinate categorization of medical personal protective equipments, which is not possible with other popular data sets that focus on broad level categories (such as PASCAL VOC, ImageNet, Microsoft COCO, OpenImages, etc). To make it easy for models trained on this dataset to be used in practical scenarios in complex scenes, our dataset mainly contains images that show complex scenes with several objects in each scene in their natural context. The image collection for this dataset focusing on: obtaining as many non-iconic images as possible and making sure all the images are real-life images unlike other existing datasets in this area. Our dataset includes 5 object categories (coveralls, face shield, gloves, mask, and goggles) and each image is annotated with a set of bounding boxes and positive labels. We present a detailed analysis of the dataset in comparison to other popular broad category datasets as well as datasets focusing on personal protective equipments, we also find that at present there exist no such publicly available datasets. Finally we also analyze performance and compare model complexities on baseline and state-of-the-art models for bounding box results. Our code, data, and trained models are available at https://git.io/cppe5-dataset .
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How Amazon became a pandemic giant – and why that could be a threat to us all
For the last year, Anna (not her real name) has been working as an Amazon "associate", in the kind of vast warehouse the company calls a fulfilment centre. For £10.50 an hour, she works four days a week, though, during busy periods, this sometimes goes up to five. Her shift begins at 7.15am and ends at 5.45pm. "When I get home," she says, "it's about 6.30. And I just go in, take a shower and go to bed. Anna is a picker in one of the company's most technologically advanced workplaces, in the south of England. This means she works in a metal enclosure in front of a screen that flashes up images of the products she has to put in the "totes" destined for the part of the warehouse where customer orders are made ready for posting out. Everything from DVDs to gardening equipment is brought to her by robot "drives": squat, droid-like devices that endlessly lift "pods" – tall fabric towers full of pockets that contain everything from DVDs to toys – and then speed them to the pickers. Everything has to happen quickly. According to the all-important metric by which a picker's performance is measured, Anna says she has to average 360 items an hour, or around 3,800 a day. In March, the Covid-19 lockdown meant that customer orders suddenly rocketed. Anna says that lots of her colleagues started putting in overtime, and new recruits arrived en masse. "They hired a lot of people," she says. "I thought there should have been fewer people in the warehouse, to have distancing." "They took out some of the tables because of 2-metre distancing, but it was impossible to find a free table or chair.
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Automatically detecting personal protective equipment on persons in images using Amazon Rekognition
The following image shows an example input image and its corresponding output from the DetectProtectiveEquipment as seen on the Amazon Rekognition PPE detection console. In this example, we supply face cover as the required PPE and 80% as the required minimum confidence threshold as part of summarizationattributes. We receive a summarization result that indicates that there are four persons in the image that are wearing face covers at a confidence score of over 80% [person identifiers 0, 1,2, 3]. It also provides the full fidelity API response in the per-person results. Note that this feature doesn't perform facial recognition or facial comparison and can't identify the detected persons.
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An embedded deep learning system for augmented reality in firefighting applications
Bhattarai, Manish, Jensen-Curtis, Aura Rose, MartíNez-Ramón, Manel
Firefighting is a dynamic activity, in which numerous operations occur simultaneously. Maintaining situational awareness (i.e., knowledge of current conditions and activities at the scene) is critical to the accurate decision-making necessary for the safe and successful navigation of a fire environment by firefighters. Conversely, the disorientation caused by hazards such as smoke and extreme heat can lead to injury or even fatality. This research implements recent advancements in technology such as deep learning, point cloud and thermal imaging, and augmented reality platforms to improve a firefighter's situational awareness and scene navigation through improved interpretation of that scene. We have designed and built a prototype embedded system that can leverage data streamed from cameras built into a firefighter's personal protective equipment (PPE) to capture thermal, RGB color, and depth imagery and then deploy already developed deep learning models to analyze the input data in real time. The embedded system analyzes and returns the processed images via wireless streaming, where they can be viewed remotely and relayed back to the firefighter using an augmented reality platform that visualizes the results of the analyzed inputs and draws the firefighter's attention to objects of interest, such as doors and windows otherwise invisible through smoke and flames.
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Computer Vision for Industrial Process Management
Industrial Process Management is key in today's factories. It is the action of essentially monitoring and controlling all systems and machinery. One of the most recent and popular benefits of industrial process management is increasing the opportunities for automation as the field of robotics is experiencing significant research and development. By carefully observing factory operations with the intent to translate the action from a manual task to an autonomous, we gain insights into the operations and thus nature of movements that would have to be replicated by a robot. Additionally, by being more attentive to employee movement patterns, we can evaluate the plant design and overall workflow, thus creating a window for optimization. Further optimization can be made through process management as inefficiencies can be observed in terms of resource and energy allocations for the different machinery or even employee distribution.
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Digital Transformation For Good Shines As We Fight COVID-19
One of the core principles of digital transformation is that it is meant to improve customer experience. But at the end of the day, humans are … wait for it … humans. Which means successful digital transformation isn't just a company's ability to earn customer relationship metrics. True success lies in a company's ability to make customer's lives better--whether those customers are buyers, patients, students, or otherwise. Let's face it: technology--especially AI--has gotten a bad rap in certain circles, and in some cases for valid reasons.
Astronauts could wear a space glove fitted with a range-finding laser
Astronauts rely on highly-engineered and sophisticated pieces of equipment to survive in space, and none are more essential than the parts which form their suit. Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed a concept glove that makes the protective equipment smarter and more interactive for the wearer. It will feature a range-finding laser, a display screen to show the suit's status and gesture control technology allowing people to control machines, such as the martian drone or lunar rover, with a flick of the wrist. The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed a concept glove that makes the protective equipment smarter and more interactive for the wearer. It will feature a range-finding laser, a display screen to show the suit's status and gesture control technology allowing people to control machines, such as the martian drone or lunar rover, with a flick of the wrist The glove created by the European Space Agency has been made as part of a project from French company Comex and designer Agatha Medioni.
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