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Computer Vision for Security Applications

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2025) | Viewed by 91286

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Dr. Danilo Avola

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Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: computer vision (feature extraction and pattern analysis); scene and event understanding (by people and/or vehicles and/or objects); human–computer interaction (pose estimation and gesture recognition by hands and/or body); sketch-based interaction (handwriting and freehand drawing); human–behaviour recognition (actions, emotions, feelings, affects, and moods by hands, body, facial expressions, and voice); biometric analysis (person re-identification by body visual features and/or gait and/or posture/pose); artificial intelligence (machine/deep learning); medical image analysis (MRI, ultrasound, X-rays, PET, and CT); multimodal fusion models; brain–computer interfaces (interaction and security systems); signal processing; visual cryptography (by RGB images); smart environments and natural interaction (with and without virtual/augmented reality); robotics (monitoring and surveillance systems with PTZ cameras, UAVs, AUVs, rovers, and humanoids)
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Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: computer vision (feature extraction and pattern analysis); scene and event understanding (by people and/or vehicles and/or objects); human–behaviour recognition (actions, emotions, feelings, affects, and moods by hands, body, facial expressions, and voice); biometric analysis (person re-identification by body visual features and/or gait and/or posture/pose); artificial intelligence (machine/deep learning); brain–computer interfaces (interaction and security systems); signal processing; visual cryptography (by RGB images); robotics (monitoring and surveillance systems by PTZ cameras, UAVs, AUVs, rovers, and humanoids)
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Dr. Alessio Fagioli

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Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: computer vision (feature extraction and pattern analysis); scene and event understanding (by people and/or vehicles and/or objects); Human-Behaviour Recognition (actions, emotions, feelings, affects, and moods by hands, body, facial expressions, and voice); biometric analysis (person re-identification by body visual features and/or gait and/or posture/pose); artificial intelligence (machine/deep learning); medical image analysis (MRI, ultrasound, X-rays, PET, and CT); multimodal fusion models; signal processing; robotics (monitoring and surveillance systems by PTZ cameras, UAVs, AUVs, rovers, and humanoids)
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Dear Colleagues,

The MDPI Information journal invites submissions to a Special Issue on “Computer Vision for Security Applications”.
Automated security systems are gaining ever-increasing interest for both indoor and outdoor applications as a consequence of technological advances in acquisition devices. Specifically, video sequences, as well as static images, are exploited to obtain innovative solutions to heterogenous problems such as area surveillance and affect recognition. In particular, these applications are also employed in real-life security scenarios, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), disaster monitoring, train stations and airports, in multi-view camera surveillance for human action recognition, and high-stakes situations (e.g., interrogations and court trials) that affect recognition, highlighting the importance of reliable and well-performing systems. Moreover, while computer vision has significantly benefitted from deep learning algorithms and neural networks, well-known issues afflicting automated video-based security applications, such as different viewing angles, illumination changes, background clutter, occlusions, and long-term re-identification still remain open. Therefore, innovative solutions are required to further advance the available systems for their employment in real-life contexts.

This Special Issue is concerned with ground-breaking approaches addressing common issues of computer vision-based methods, with a particular emphasis on security applications.

Dr. Danilo Avola
Dr. Daniele Pannone
Dr. Alessio Fagioli
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Keywords

  • drone patrolling
  • distributed smart cameras for person re-identification
  • image analysis for action recognition
  • machine/deep learning models in surveillance systems
  • automatic scene understanding
  • skeleton-based methods for person re-identification
  • methods and models for affect recognition
  • soft and hard biometrics
  • soft computing for visual security applications
  • application of 3D vision in security
  • image sensor fusion

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Optimized Marine Target Detection in Remote Sensing Images with Attention Mechanism and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion
by Xiantao Jiang, Tianyi Liu, Tian Song and Qi Cen
Information 2025, 16(4), 332; https://doi.org/10.3390/info16040332 - 21 Apr 2025
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With the continuous growth of maritime activities and the shipping trade, the application of maritime target detection in remote sensing images has become increasingly important. However, existing detection methods face numerous challenges, such as small target localization, recognition of targets with large aspect [...] Read more.
With the continuous growth of maritime activities and the shipping trade, the application of maritime target detection in remote sensing images has become increasingly important. However, existing detection methods face numerous challenges, such as small target localization, recognition of targets with large aspect ratios, and high computational demands. In this paper, we propose an improved target detection model, named YOLOv5-ASC, to address the challenges in maritime target detection. The proposed YOLOv5-ASC integrates three core components: an Attention-based Receptive Field Enhancement Module (ARFEM), an optimized SIoU loss function, and a Deformable Convolution Module (C3DCN). These components work together to enhance the model’s performance in detecting complex maritime targets by improving its ability to capture multi-scale features, optimize the localization process, and adapt to the large aspect ratios typical of maritime objects. Experimental results show that, compared to the original YOLOv5 model, YOLOv5-ASC achieves a 4.36 percentage point increase in mAP@0.5 and a 9.87 percentage point improvement in precision, while maintaining computational complexity within a reasonable range. The proposed method not only achieves significant performance improvements on the ShipRSImageNet dataset but also demonstrates strong potential for application in complex maritime remote sensing scenarios. Full article
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Non-Local Prior Dense Feature Distillation Network for Image Compressive Sensing
by Mingkun Feng, Xiaole Han and Kai Zheng
Information 2024, 15(12), 773; https://doi.org/10.3390/info15120773 - 3 Dec 2024
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Deep learning-based image compressive sensing (CS) methods often suffer from high computational complexity and significant loss of image details in reconstructions. A non-local prior dense feature distillation network (NPDFD-Net) is proposed for image CS. First, the non-local priors of images are leveraged to [...] Read more.
Deep learning-based image compressive sensing (CS) methods often suffer from high computational complexity and significant loss of image details in reconstructions. A non-local prior dense feature distillation network (NPDFD-Net) is proposed for image CS. First, the non-local priors of images are leveraged to enhance high-frequency information in the measurements. Second, a discrete wavelet decomposition learning module and an inverse discrete wavelet reconstruction module are designed to reduce information loss and significantly lower computational complexity. Third, a feature distillation mechanism is incorporated into residual dense blocks to improve feature transmission efficiency. Finally, a multi-scale enhanced spatial attention module is proposed to strengthen feature diversity. Experimental results indicate that compared to MRCS_GAN, OCTUF, and DPC-DUN, the proposed method achieves an average PSNR improvement of 1.52%, 2.35%, and 0.93%, respectively, on the Set5 dataset. The image reconstruction running time is enhanced by 93.93%, 71.76%, and 40.74%, respectively. Furthermore, the proposed method exhibits significant advantages in restoring fine texture details in the reconstructed images. Full article
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Variational Color Shift and Auto-Encoder Based on Large Separable Kernel Attention for Enhanced Text CAPTCHA Vulnerability Assessment
by Xing Wan, Juliana Johari and Fazlina Ahmat Ruslan
Information 2024, 15(11), 717; https://doi.org/10.3390/info15110717 - 7 Nov 2024
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Text CAPTCHAs are crucial security measures deployed on global websites to deter unauthorized intrusions. The presence of anti-attack features incorporated into text CAPTCHAs limits the effectiveness of evaluating them, despite CAPTCHA recognition being an effective method for assessing their security. This study introduces [...] Read more.
Text CAPTCHAs are crucial security measures deployed on global websites to deter unauthorized intrusions. The presence of anti-attack features incorporated into text CAPTCHAs limits the effectiveness of evaluating them, despite CAPTCHA recognition being an effective method for assessing their security. This study introduces a novel color augmentation technique called Variational Color Shift (VCS) to boost the recognition accuracy of different networks. VCS generates a color shift of every input image and then resamples the image within that range to generate a new image, thus expanding the number of samples of the original dataset to improve training effectiveness. In contrast to Random Color Shift (RCS), which treats the color offsets as hyperparameters, VCS estimates color shifts by reparametrizing the points sampled from the uniform distribution using predicted offsets according to every image, which makes the color shifts learnable. To better balance the computation and performance, we also propose two variants of VCS: Sim-VCS and Dilated-VCS. In addition, to solve the overfitting problem caused by disturbances in text CAPTCHAs, we propose an Auto-Encoder (AE) based on Large Separable Kernel Attention (AE-LSKA) to replace the convolutional module with large kernels in the text CAPTCHA recognizer. This new module employs an AE to compress the interference while expanding the receptive field using Large Separable Kernel Attention (LSKA), reducing the impact of local interference on the model training and improving the overall perception of characters. The experimental results show that the recognition accuracy of the model after integrating the AE-LSKA module is improved by at least 15 percentage points on both M-CAPTCHA and P-CAPTCHA datasets. In addition, experimental results demonstrate that color augmentation using VCS is more effective in enhancing recognition, which has higher accuracy compared to RCS and PCA Color Shift (PCA-CS). Full article
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Military Decision-Making Process Enhanced by Image Detection
by Nikola Žigulić, Matko Glučina, Ivan Lorencin and Dario Matika
Information 2024, 15(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/info15010011 - 24 Dec 2023
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This study delves into the vital missions of the armed forces, encompassing the defense of territorial integrity, sovereignty, and support for civil institutions. Commanders grapple with crucial decisions, where accountability underscores the imperative for reliable field intelligence. Harnessing artificial intelligence, specifically, the YOLO [...] Read more.
This study delves into the vital missions of the armed forces, encompassing the defense of territorial integrity, sovereignty, and support for civil institutions. Commanders grapple with crucial decisions, where accountability underscores the imperative for reliable field intelligence. Harnessing artificial intelligence, specifically, the YOLO version five detection algorithm, ensures a paradigm of efficiency and precision. The presentation of trained models, accompanied by pertinent hyperparameters and dataset specifics derived from public military insignia videos and photos, reveals a nuanced evaluation. Results scrutinized through precision, recall, map@0.5, mAP@0.95, and F1 score metrics, illuminate the supremacy of the model employing Stochastic Gradient Descent at 640 × 640 resolution: 0.966, 0.957, 0.979, 0.830, and 0.961. Conversely, the suboptimal performance of the model using the Adam optimizer registers metrics of 0.818, 0.762, 0.785, 0.430, and 0.789. These outcomes underscore the model’s potential for military object detection across diverse terrains, with future prospects considering the implementation on unmanned arial vehicles to amplify and deploy the model effectively. Full article
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Deep Learning Approach for Human Action Recognition Using a Time Saliency Map Based on Motion Features Considering Camera Movement and Shot in Video Image Sequences
by Abdorreza Alavigharahbagh, Vahid Hajihashemi, José J. M. Machado and João Manuel R. S. Tavares
Information 2023, 14(11), 616; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14110616 - 15 Nov 2023
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In this article, a hierarchical method for action recognition based on temporal and spatial features is proposed. In current HAR methods, camera movement, sensor movement, sudden scene changes, and scene movement can increase motion feature errors and decrease accuracy. Another important aspect to [...] Read more.
In this article, a hierarchical method for action recognition based on temporal and spatial features is proposed. In current HAR methods, camera movement, sensor movement, sudden scene changes, and scene movement can increase motion feature errors and decrease accuracy. Another important aspect to take into account in a HAR method is the required computational cost. The proposed method provides a preprocessing step to address these challenges. As a preprocessing step, the method uses optical flow to detect camera movements and shots in input video image sequences. In the temporal processing block, the optical flow technique is combined with the absolute value of frame differences to obtain a time saliency map. The detection of shots, cancellation of camera movement, and the building of a time saliency map minimise movement detection errors. The time saliency map is then passed to the spatial processing block to segment the moving persons and/or objects in the scene. Because the search region for spatial processing is limited based on the temporal processing results, the computations in the spatial domain are drastically reduced. In the spatial processing block, the scene foreground is extracted in three steps: silhouette extraction, active contour segmentation, and colour segmentation. Key points are selected at the borders of the segmented foreground. The last used features are the intensity and angle of the optical flow of detected key points. Using key point features for action detection reduces the computational cost of the classification step and the required training time. Finally, the features are submitted to a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to recognise the involved action. The proposed method was tested using four well-known action datasets: KTH, Weizmann, HMDB51, and UCF101 datasets and its efficiency was evaluated. Since the proposed approach segments salient objects based on motion, edges, and colour features, it can be added as a preprocessing step to most current HAR systems to improve performance. Full article
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An Automated Precise Authentication of Vehicles for Enhancing the Visual Security Protocols
by Kumarmangal Roy, Muneer Ahmad, Norjihan Abdul Ghani, Jia Uddin and Jungpil Shin
Information 2023, 14(8), 466; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14080466 - 18 Aug 2023
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The movement of vehicles in and out of the predefined enclosure is an important security protocol that we encounter daily. Identification of vehicles is a very important factor for security surveillance. In a smart campus concept, thousands of vehicles access the campus every [...] Read more.
The movement of vehicles in and out of the predefined enclosure is an important security protocol that we encounter daily. Identification of vehicles is a very important factor for security surveillance. In a smart campus concept, thousands of vehicles access the campus every day, resulting in massive carbon emissions. Automated monitoring of both aspects (pollution and security) are an essential element for an academic institution. Among the reported methods, the automated identification of number plates is the best way to streamline vehicles. The performances of most of the previously designed similar solutions suffer in the context of light exposure, stationary backgrounds, indoor area, specific driveways, etc. We propose a new hybrid single-shot object detector architecture based on the Haar cascade and MobileNet-SSD. In addition, we adopt a new optical character reader mechanism for character identification on number plates. We prove that the proposed hybrid approach is robust and works well on live object detection. The existing research focused on the prediction accuracy, which in most state-of-the-art methods (SOTA) is very similar. Thus, the precision among several use cases is also a good evaluation measure that was ignored in the existing research. It is evident that the performance of prediction systems suffers due to adverse weather conditions stated earlier. In such cases, the precision between events of detection may result in high variance that impacts the prediction of vehicles in unfavorable circumstances. The performance assessment of the proposed solution yields a precision of 98% on real-time data for Malaysian number plates, which can be generalized in the future to all sorts of vehicles around the globe. Full article
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A Video Question Answering Model Based on Knowledge Distillation
by Zhuang Shao, Jiahui Wan and Linlin Zong
Information 2023, 14(6), 328; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14060328 - 12 Jun 2023
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Video question answering (QA) is a cross-modal task that requires understanding the video content to answer questions. Current techniques address this challenge by employing stacked modules, such as attention mechanisms and graph convolutional networks. These methods reason about the semantics of video features [...] Read more.
Video question answering (QA) is a cross-modal task that requires understanding the video content to answer questions. Current techniques address this challenge by employing stacked modules, such as attention mechanisms and graph convolutional networks. These methods reason about the semantics of video features and their interaction with text-based questions, yielding excellent results. However, these approaches often learn and fuse features representing different aspects of the video separately, neglecting the intra-interaction and overlooking the latent complex correlations between the extracted features. Additionally, the stacking of modules introduces a large number of parameters, making model training more challenging. To address these issues, we propose a novel multimodal knowledge distillation method that leverages the strengths of knowledge distillation for model compression and feature enhancement. Specifically, the fused features in the larger teacher model are distilled into knowledge, which guides the learning of appearance and motion features in the smaller student model. By incorporating cross-modal information in the early stages, the appearance and motion features can discover their related and complementary potential relationships, thus improving the overall model performance. Despite its simplicity, our extensive experiments on the widely used video QA datasets, MSVD-QA and MSRVTT-QA, demonstrate clear performance improvements over prior methods. These results validate the effectiveness of the proposed knowledge distillation approach. Full article
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Recognizing the Wadi Fluvial Structure and Stream Network in the Qena Bend of the Nile River, Egypt, on Landsat 8-9 OLI Images
by Polina Lemenkova and Olivier Debeir
Information 2023, 14(4), 249; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14040249 - 20 Apr 2023
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With methods for processing remote sensing data becoming widely available, the ability to quantify changes in spatial data and to evaluate the distribution of diverse landforms across target areas in datasets becomes increasingly important. One way to approach this problem is through satellite [...] Read more.
With methods for processing remote sensing data becoming widely available, the ability to quantify changes in spatial data and to evaluate the distribution of diverse landforms across target areas in datasets becomes increasingly important. One way to approach this problem is through satellite image processing. In this paper, we primarily focus on the methods of the unsupervised classification of the Landsat OLI/TIRS images covering the region of the Qena governorate in Upper Egypt. The Qena Bend of the Nile River presents a remarkable morphological feature in Upper Egypt, including a dense drainage network of wadi aquifer systems and plateaus largely dissected by numerous valleys of dry rivers. To identify the fluvial structure and stream network of the Wadi Qena region, this study addresses the problem of interpreting the relevant space-borne data using R, with an aim to visualize the land surface structures corresponding to various land cover types. To this effect, high-resolution 2D and 3D topographic and geologic maps were used for the analysis of the geomorphological setting of the Qena region. The information was extracted from the space-borne data for the comparative analysis of the distribution of wadi streams in the Qena Bend area over several years: 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2023. Six images were processed using computer vision methods made available by R libraries. The results of the k-means clustering of each scene retrieved from the multi-temporal images covering the Qena Bend of the Nile River were thus compared to visualize changes in landforms caused by the cumulative effects of geomorphological disasters and climate–environmental processes. The proposed method, tied together through the use of R scripts, runs effectively and performs favorably in computer vision tasks aimed at geospatial image processing and the analysis of remote sensing data. Full article
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Improved Feature Extraction and Similarity Algorithm for Video Object Detection
by Haotian You, Yufang Lu and Haihua Tang
Information 2023, 14(2), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14020115 - 12 Feb 2023
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Video object detection is an important research direction of computer vision. The task of video object detection is to detect and classify moving objects in a sequence of images. Based on the static image object detector, most of the existing video object detection [...] Read more.
Video object detection is an important research direction of computer vision. The task of video object detection is to detect and classify moving objects in a sequence of images. Based on the static image object detector, most of the existing video object detection methods use the unique temporal correlation of video to solve the problem of missed detection and false detection caused by moving object occlusion and blur. Another video object detection model guided by an optical flow network is widely used. Feature aggregation of adjacent frames is performed by estimating the optical flow field. However, there are many redundant computations for feature aggregation of adjacent frames. To begin with, this paper improved Faster RCNN by Feature Pyramid and Dynamic Region Aware Convolution. Then the S-SELSA module is proposed from the perspective of semantic and feature similarity. Feature similarity is obtained by a modified SSIM algorithm. The module can aggregate the features of frames globally to avoid redundancy. Finally, the experimental results on the ImageNet VID and DET datasets show that the mAP of the method proposed in this paper is 83.55%, which is higher than the existing methods. Full article
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Deep Learning and Vision-Based Early Drowning Detection
by Maad Shatnawi, Frdoos Albreiki, Ashwaq Alkhoori and Mariam Alhebshi
Information 2023, 14(1), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14010052 - 16 Jan 2023
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Drowning is one of the top five causes of death for children aged 1–14 worldwide. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), drowning is the third most common reason for unintentional fatalities. Designing a drowning detection system is becoming increasingly necessary [...] Read more.
Drowning is one of the top five causes of death for children aged 1–14 worldwide. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), drowning is the third most common reason for unintentional fatalities. Designing a drowning detection system is becoming increasingly necessary in order to ensure the safety of swimmers, particularly children. This paper presents a computer vision and deep learning-based early drowning detection approach. We utilized five convolutional neural network models and trained them on our data. These models are SqueezeNet, GoogleNet, AlexNet, ShuffleNet, and ResNet50. ResNet50 showed the best performance, as it achieved 100% prediction accuracy with a reasonable training time. When compared to other approaches, the proposed approach performed exceptionally well in terms of prediction accuracy and computational cost. Full article
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Zero-Shot Blind Learning for Single-Image Super-Resolution
by Kazuhiro Yamawaki and Xian-Hua Han
Information 2023, 14(1), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/info14010033 - 5 Jan 2023
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Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have manifested significant performance gains for single-image super-resolution (SISR) in the past few years. Most of the existing methods are generally implemented in a fully supervised way using large-scale training samples and only learn the SR models restricted [...] Read more.
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have manifested significant performance gains for single-image super-resolution (SISR) in the past few years. Most of the existing methods are generally implemented in a fully supervised way using large-scale training samples and only learn the SR models restricted to specific data. Thus, the adaptation of these models to real low-resolution (LR) images captured under uncontrolled imaging conditions usually leads to poor SR results. This study proposes a zero-shot blind SR framework via leveraging the power of deep learning, but without the requirement of the prior training using predefined imaged samples. It is well known that there are two unknown data: the underlying target high-resolution (HR) images and the degradation operations in the imaging procedure hidden in the observed LR images. Taking these in mind, we specifically employed two deep networks for respectively modeling the priors of both the target HR image and its corresponding degradation kernel and designed a degradation block to realize the observation procedure of the LR image. Via formulating the loss function as the approximation error of the observed LR image, we established a completely blind end-to-end zero-shot learning framework for simultaneously predicting the target HR image and the degradation kernel without any external data. In particular, we adopted a multi-scale encoder–decoder subnet to serve as the image prior learning network, a simple fully connected subnet to serve as the kernel prior learning network, and a specific depthwise convolutional block to implement the degradation procedure. We conducted extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets and manifested the great superiority and high generalization of our method over both SOTA supervised and unsupervised SR methods. Full article
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Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems for Vehicle Identification Based on Multinet Architecture
by Jacobo González-Cepeda, Álvaro Ramajo and José María Armingol
Information 2022, 13(7), 325; https://doi.org/10.3390/info13070325 - 6 Jul 2022
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Security cameras have been proven to be particularly useful in preventing and combating crime through identification tasks. Here, two areas can be mainly distinguished: person and vehicle identification. Automatic license plate readers are the most widely used tool for vehicle identification. Although these [...] Read more.
Security cameras have been proven to be particularly useful in preventing and combating crime through identification tasks. Here, two areas can be mainly distinguished: person and vehicle identification. Automatic license plate readers are the most widely used tool for vehicle identification. Although these systems are very effective, they are not reliable enough in certain circumstances. For example, due to traffic jams, vehicle position or weather conditions, the sensors cannot capture an image of the entire license plate. However, there is still a lot of additional information in the image which may also be of interest, and that needs to be analysed quickly and accurately. The correct use of the processing mechanisms can significantly reduce analysis time, increasing the efficiency of video cameras significantly. To solve this problem, we have designed a solution based on two technologies: license plate recognition and vehicle re-identification. For its development and testing, we have also created several datasets recreating a real environment. In addition, during this article, it is also possible to read about some of the main artificial intelligence techniques for these technologies, as they have served as the starting point for this research. Full article
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Multi-Attention Module for Dynamic Facial Emotion Recognition
by Junnan Zhi, Tingting Song, Kang Yu, Fengen Yuan, Huaqiang Wang, Guangyang Hu and Hao Yang
Information 2022, 13(5), 207; https://doi.org/10.3390/info13050207 - 19 Apr 2022
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Video-based dynamic facial emotion recognition (FER) is a challenging task, as one must capture and distinguish tiny facial movements representing emotional changes while ignoring the facial differences of different objects. Recent state-of-the-art studies have usually adopted more complex methods to solve this task, [...] Read more.
Video-based dynamic facial emotion recognition (FER) is a challenging task, as one must capture and distinguish tiny facial movements representing emotional changes while ignoring the facial differences of different objects. Recent state-of-the-art studies have usually adopted more complex methods to solve this task, such as large-scale deep learning models or multimodal analysis with reference to multiple sub-models. According to the characteristics of the FER task and the shortcomings of existing methods, in this paper we propose a lightweight method and design three attention modules that can be flexibly inserted into the backbone network. The key information for the three dimensions of space, channel, and time is extracted by means of convolution layer, pooling layer, multi-layer perception (MLP), and other approaches, and attention weights are generated. By sharing parameters at the same level, the three modules do not add too many network parameters while enhancing the focus on specific areas of the face, effective feature information of static images, and key frames. The experimental results on CK+ and eNTERFACE’05 datasets show that this method can achieve higher accuracy. Full article
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Low-Altitude Aerial Video Surveillance via One-Class SVM Anomaly Detection from Textural Features in UAV Images
by Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Angelo Di Mambro, Anxhelo Diko, Alessio Fagioli, Gian Luca Foresti, Marco Raoul Marini, Alessio Mecca and Daniele Pannone
Information 2022, 13(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/info13010002 - 22 Dec 2021
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In recent years, small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used in many video surveillance applications, such as vehicle tracking, border control, dangerous object detection, and many others. Anomaly detection can represent a prerequisite of many of these applications thanks to its ability [...] Read more.
In recent years, small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used in many video surveillance applications, such as vehicle tracking, border control, dangerous object detection, and many others. Anomaly detection can represent a prerequisite of many of these applications thanks to its ability to identify areas and/or objects of interest without knowing them a priori. In this paper, a One-Class Support Vector Machine (OC-SVM) anomaly detector based on customized Haralick textural features for aerial video surveillance at low-altitude is presented. The use of a One-Class SVM, which is notoriously a lightweight and fast classifier, enables the implementation of real-time systems even when these are embedded in low-computational small-scale UAVs. At the same time, the use of textural features allows a vision-based system to detect micro and macro structures of an analyzed surface, thus allowing the identification of small and large anomalies, respectively. The latter aspect plays a key role in aerial video surveillance at low-altitude, i.e., 6 to 15 m, where the detection of common items, e.g., cars, is as important as the detection of little and undefined objects, e.g., Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Experiments obtained on the UAV Mosaicking and Change Detection (UMCD) dataset show the effectiveness of the proposed system in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, where the model achieves a 100% precision, i.e., never misses an anomaly, but at the expense of a reasonable trade-off in its recall, which still manages to reach up to a 71.23% score. Moreover, when compared to classical Haralick textural features, the model obtains significantly higher performances, i.e., ≈20% on all metrics, further demonstrating the approach effectiveness. Full article
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Advances and Challenges in Automated Drowning Detection and Prevention Systems
by Maad Shatnawi, Frdoos Albreiki, Ashwaq Alkhoori, Mariam Alhebshi and Anas Shatnawi
Information 2024, 15(11), 721; https://doi.org/10.3390/info15110721 - 11 Nov 2024
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Drowning is among the most common reasons for children’s death aged one to fourteen around the globe, ranking as the third leading cause of unintentional injury death. With rising populations and the growing popularity of swimming pools in hotels and villas, the incidence [...] Read more.
Drowning is among the most common reasons for children’s death aged one to fourteen around the globe, ranking as the third leading cause of unintentional injury death. With rising populations and the growing popularity of swimming pools in hotels and villas, the incidence of drowning has accelerated. Accordingly, the development of systems for detecting and preventing drowning has become increasingly critical to provide safe swimming settings. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive review of recent existing advancements in automated drowning detection and prevention systems. The existing approaches can be broadly categorized according to their objectives into two main groups: detection-based systems, which alert lifeguards or parents to perform manual rescues, and detection and rescue-based systems, which integrate detection with automatic rescue mechanisms. Automatic drowning detection approaches could be further categorized into computer vision-based approaches, where camera-captured images are analyzed by machine learning algorithms to detect instances of drowning, and sensing-based approaches, where sensing instruments are attached to swimmers to monitor their physical parameters. We explore the advantages and limitations of each approach. Additionally, we highlight technical challenges and unresolved issues related to this domain, such as data imbalance, accuracy, privacy concerns, and integration with rescue systems. We also identify future research opportunities, emphasizing the need for more advanced AI models, uniform datasets, and better integration of detection with autonomous rescue mechanisms. This study aims to provide a critical resource for researchers and practitioners, facilitating the development of more effective systems to enhance water safety and minimize drowning incidents. Full article
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Facial Emotion Recognition Using Conventional Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods: Current Achievements, Analysis and Remaining Challenges
by Amjad Rehman Khan
Information 2022, 13(6), 268; https://doi.org/10.3390/info13060268 - 25 May 2022
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Facial emotion recognition (FER) is an emerging and significant research area in the pattern recognition domain. In daily life, the role of non-verbal communication is significant, and in overall communication, its involvement is around 55% to 93%. Facial emotion analysis is efficiently used [...] Read more.
Facial emotion recognition (FER) is an emerging and significant research area in the pattern recognition domain. In daily life, the role of non-verbal communication is significant, and in overall communication, its involvement is around 55% to 93%. Facial emotion analysis is efficiently used in surveillance videos, expression analysis, gesture recognition, smart homes, computer games, depression treatment, patient monitoring, anxiety, detecting lies, psychoanalysis, paralinguistic communication, detecting operator fatigue and robotics. In this paper, we present a detailed review on FER. The literature is collected from different reputable research published during the current decade. This review is based on conventional machine learning (ML) and various deep learning (DL) approaches. Further, different FER datasets for evaluation metrics that are publicly available are discussed and compared with benchmark results. This paper provides a holistic review of FER using traditional ML and DL methods to highlight the future gap in this domain for new researchers. Finally, this review work is a guidebook and very helpful for young researchers in the FER area, providing a general understating and basic knowledge of the current state-of-the-art methods, and to experienced researchers looking for productive directions for future work. Full article
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