Automatic detection of helmet uses for construction safety

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• Personal Author:
  Chen L ; Kalantari-Khandani M ; Pan, Christopher S. ; Rahman SA ; Rubaiyat AHM ; Toma TT ; Ye Y
• Description:
  The U.S. construction industry suffers from the highest number of fatalities among all industries, i.e., one in five worker deaths in private industry were in construction. Tremendous loss has occurred to the workers' families, the industry, and the nation. Considering the large and increasing number of construction projects that are being conducted in the U.S., there is a growing necessity of developing innovative methods to automatically monitor the safety for the workers at construction sites. Since the head is the most critical area of a human body and is the most vulnerable to an impact that could cause serious injury or death, the use of a protective helmet in construction work is needed. In this paper, we aim to automatically detect the uses of construction helmets (e.g., whether the construction worker wears the helmet or not) by analyzing the construction surveillance images. Based on the collected images, we first detect the object of interest (i.e., construction worker) and further analyze whether the worker wears the helmet or not, by using computer vision and machine learning techniques. In the first step, we incorporate frequency domain information of the image with a popular human detection algorithm Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) for construction worker detection; in the second step, the combination of color-based and Circle Hough Transform (CHT) feature extraction techniques is applied to detect helmet uses for the construction worker. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Fatalities Head Injuries Head Protective Equipment Monitoring Systems Morbidity Rates Mortality Rates Personal Protection Personal Protective Equipment Safety Equipment Safety Helmets Safety Measures Surveillance Surveillance Programs Work Environment Workers

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• ISBN:
  9781509047710
• Publisher:
  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  135-142
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049471
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence Workshops, October 13-16, 2016, Omaha, Nebraska. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017 Jan; :135-142
• Contact Point Address:
  Yanfang Ye, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506
• Email:
  yanfang.ye@mail.wvu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence Workshops, October 13-16, 2016, Omaha, Nebraska
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:39cdc1714af851d62e02ae82f3a865c40615945f8620ee14723d6a952bf8e5974ebf9fdf57e19ebcd2617edd924d116b9affbdc19152afb06bb54c4b7bf9a50b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203914/cdc_203914_DS1.pdf
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