U-Net Inspired Deep Neural Network-Based Smoke Plume Detection in Satellite Images

Industrial activities, through the human-induced release of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, have beenidentified as the primary cause of global warming. Accurate and quantitative monitoring of these emissions isessential for a comprehensive understanding of their impact on the Earth’s climate and for effectively enforcingemission regulations at a large scale. This work examines the feasibility of detecting and quantifying industrialsmoke plumes using freely accessible geo-satellite imagery. The existing systemhas so many lagging factors such aslimitations in accuracy, robustness, and efficiency and these factors hinder the effectiveness in supporting timelyresponse to industrial fires. In this work, the utilization of grayscale images is done instead of traditional colorimages for smoke plume detection. The dataset was trained through a ResNet-50 model for classification and aU-Net model for segmentation. The dataset consists of images gathered by European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite constellation from a selection of industrial sites. The acquired images predominantly capture scenesof industrial locations, some of which exhibit active smoke plume emissions. The performance of the abovementionedtechniques and models is represented by their accuracy and IOU (Intersection-over-Union) metric.The images are first trained on the basic RGB images where their respective classification using the ResNet-50model results in an accuracy of 94.4% and segmentation using the U-Net Model with an IOU metric of 0.5 andaccuracy of 94% which leads to the detection of exact patches where the smoke plume has occurred. This work hastrained the classification model on grayscale images achieving a good increase in accuracy of 96.4%.

Zero-DCE++Inspired Object Detection in Less Illuminated Environment Using Improved YOLOv5

Automated object detection has received the most attention over the years.Use cases ranging from autonomous driving applications to military surveillance systems,require robust detection of objects in different illumination conditions.State-of-the-art object detectors tend to fare well in object detection during daytime conditions.However,their performance is severely hampered in night light conditions due to poor illumination.To address this challenge,the manuscript proposes an improved YOLOv5-based object detection framework for effective detection in unevenly illuminated nighttime conditions.Firstly,the preprocessing strategies involve using the Zero-DCE++approach to enhance lowlight images.It is followed by optimizing the existing YOLOv5 architecture by integrating the Convolutional Block Attention Module(CBAM)in the backbone network to boost model learning capability and Depthwise Convolutional module(DWConv)in the neck network for efficient compression of network parameters.The Night Object Detection(NOD)and Exclusively Dark(ExDARK)dataset has been used for this work.The proposed framework detects classes like humans,bicycles,and cars.Experiments demonstrate that the proposed architecture achieved a higher Mean Average Precision(mAP)along with a reduction in model size and total parameters,respectively.The proposed model is lighter by 11.24%in terms of model size and 12.38%in terms of parameters when compared to baseline YOLOv5.

Deep Learning Based Face Detection and Identification of Criminal Suspects

Occurrence of crimes has been on the constant rise despite the emerging discoveries and advancements in the technological field in the past decade.One of the most tedious tasks is to track a suspect once a crime is committed.As most of the crimes are committed by individuals who have a history of felonies,it is essential for a monitoring system that does not just detect the person’s face who has committed the crime,but also their identity.Hence,a smart criminal detection and identification system that makes use of the OpenCV Deep Neural Network(DNN)model which employs a Single Shot Multibox Detector for detection of face and an auto-encoder model in which the encoder part is used for matching the captured facial images with the criminals has been proposed.After detection and extraction of the face in the image by face cropping,the captured face is then compared with the images in the CriminalDatabase.The comparison is performed by calculating the similarity value between each pair of images that are obtained by using the Cosine Similarity metric.After plotting the values in a graph to find the threshold value,we conclude that the confidence rate of the encoder model is 0.75 and above.