Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening

In recent years, the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome detection and human tracking using infrared sensors get attention by many researchers. Machine vision plays an important role for successful conduction of above researchers. In most of the researches, focus is given on thermal...

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Main Authors: Siti Sofiah, Mohd Radzi, Kamarul Hawari, Ghazali, Sabira, Khatun
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Language:English
Published: Publishing Technology 2017
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author Siti Sofiah, Mohd Radzi
Kamarul Hawari, Ghazali
Sabira, Khatun
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description In recent years, the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome detection and human tracking using infrared sensors get attention by many researchers. Machine vision plays an important role for successful conduction of above researchers. In most of the researches, focus is given on thermal spectrum, very less focus on the effectiveness of febrile mass detection and screening. For detection, usually the region of interest is the exposed area of head-to-shoulder. This is essential prior to measure the temperature of a febrile person by the thermal camera. Challenges to detect pedestrian in a crowd through thermal images include the image background and nature, quality of image in infrared spectrum as well as the real crowd situation in public area that cause occlusion. In this paper, a well-annotated pedestrian dataset is developed using thermal images taken during fever screening in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Then the statistical analysis on size and occlusion patterns in the streaming crowds has been performed. Finally, a local context detector is introduced, by taking into account the local context on head in thermal datasets for better detection performance. The performance proposed detector is evaluated on the developed thermal images dataset. Overall, it shows highest performance compared to existing pre-trained detectors.
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spelling ump-289642022-11-04T09:24:18Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28964/ Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening Siti Sofiah, Mohd Radzi Kamarul Hawari, Ghazali Sabira, Khatun TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering In recent years, the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome detection and human tracking using infrared sensors get attention by many researchers. Machine vision plays an important role for successful conduction of above researchers. In most of the researches, focus is given on thermal spectrum, very less focus on the effectiveness of febrile mass detection and screening. For detection, usually the region of interest is the exposed area of head-to-shoulder. This is essential prior to measure the temperature of a febrile person by the thermal camera. Challenges to detect pedestrian in a crowd through thermal images include the image background and nature, quality of image in infrared spectrum as well as the real crowd situation in public area that cause occlusion. In this paper, a well-annotated pedestrian dataset is developed using thermal images taken during fever screening in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Then the statistical analysis on size and occlusion patterns in the streaming crowds has been performed. Finally, a local context detector is introduced, by taking into account the local context on head in thermal datasets for better detection performance. The performance proposed detector is evaluated on the developed thermal images dataset. Overall, it shows highest performance compared to existing pre-trained detectors. Publishing Technology 2017-11 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28964/1/Contextual%20thermal%20face%20detection%20for%20fever%20mass%20screening.pdf Siti Sofiah, Mohd Radzi and Kamarul Hawari, Ghazali and Sabira, Khatun (2017) Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening. Advanced Science Letters, 23 (11). pp. 11330-11334. ISSN 1936-6612. (Published) https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.10277 https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.10277
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Siti Sofiah, Mohd Radzi
Kamarul Hawari, Ghazali
Sabira, Khatun
Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening
title Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening
title_full Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening
title_fullStr Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening
title_full_unstemmed Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening
title_short Contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening
title_sort contextual thermal face detection for fever mass screening
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28964/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28964/1/Contextual%20thermal%20face%20detection%20for%20fever%20mass%20screening.pdf