Incorporate Online Hard Example Mining and Multi-Part Combination Into Automatic Safety Helmet Wearing Detection

Automatic detection of workers wearing safety helmets at the construction site is essential for safe production. Aiming at the problem of low recognition rate caused by factors such as background and light in the automatic detection of safety helmets using traditional machine learning methods, this paper proposes an object detection framework that combines Online Hard Example Mining (OHEM) and multi-part combination. In our framework, we first use the multi-scale training and the increasing anchors strategies to enhance the robustness of the original Faster RCNN algorithm to detect different scales and small object. Then, the OHEM is to optimize the model to prevent the imbalance of positive and negative samples. Finally, the person wearing the helmet and its parts (helmet and person) are detected by improved Faster RCNN. The multi-part combination method uses the geometric information of the detection objects to determine if a worker is wearing a helmet. Experiments show that compared with the original Faster RCNN, the detection accuracy is increased by 7%. It also has better detection performance for partial occlusion and different-size objects, showing good generalization and robustness.