학술논문

Cascaded Neural Networks for Identification and Posture-Based Threat Assessment of Armed People
Document Type
Conference
Source
2019 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST) Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2019 IEEE International Symposium on. :1-7 Nov, 2019
Subject
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
Nuclear Engineering
Government
Security
Hidden Markov models
Neural networks
Weapons
Pose estimation
Skeleton
Language
Abstract
This paper presents a near real-time, multistage classifier which identifies people and handguns in images, and then further assesses the threat-level that a person poses based on their body posture. The first stage consists of a convolutional neural network (CNN) that determines whether a person and a handgun are present in an image. If so, a second stage CNN is then used to estimate the pose of the person detected to have a handgun. Lastly, a feed-forward neural network (NN) makes the final threat assessment based on the joint positions of the persons skeletal pose estimate from the previous stage. On average, this entire pipeline requires less than 1 second of processing time on a desktop computer. The model was trained using approximately 2,000 images and achieved a pistol and person detection rate of 22% and 55%, respectively. The final stage NN correctly identified the severity of the threat with 84% accuracy. The images used to train each stage of our multi-classifier model are available online. With an expanded dataset the accuracy of detecting people and pistols can likely be improved in the future.