A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and Umrah

In today's digital world, some crowded venues still rely on outdated methods, such as counting people using counters or sensors at the entrance. These techniques generally fail in areas where people move randomly. Crowd management is an important challenge for ensuring human safety. This paper...

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Main Authors: Riad Alharbey, Ameen Banjar, Yahia Said, Mohamed Atri, Mohamed Abid
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Language:English
Published: D. G. Pylarinos 2024-02-01
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Online Access:https://etasr.com/index.php/ETASR/article/view/6668
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author Riad Alharbey
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description In today's digital world, some crowded venues still rely on outdated methods, such as counting people using counters or sensors at the entrance. These techniques generally fail in areas where people move randomly. Crowd management is an important challenge for ensuring human safety. This paper focuses on developing a crowd management system for Hajj and Umrah duty. Motivated by the recent artificial intelligence techniques and the availability of large-scale data, a crowd management system was established and is presented in this paper. Utilizing the most recent Deep Learning techniques, the proposed crowd management system will be charged with detecting human faces, face identification, tracking, and human face counting tasks. Face counting and detection will be achieved by computing the number of people in a given area. Face detection and tracking will be carried out for person identification, flow rate estimation, and security. The suggested crowd management system is composed of three key components: (1) face detection, (2) assignment of a specific identifier (ID) to each detected face, (3) each detected face will be compared to the stored faces in the dataset. If the detected face is identified, it will be assigned to its ID, or a new ID will be assigned. The crowd management system has been developed to improve the Cross-Stage Partial Network (CSPNet) with attention module integration. An attention module was employed to address object location challenges and a channel-wise attention module for determining the objects of focus. Extensive experiments on the WIDER FACE dataset proved the robustness of the proposed face detection module, which allows for building reliable crowd management and flow rate estimation systems through detecting, tracking, and counting human faces. The reported results demonstrated the power of the proposed method while achieving high detection performance in terms of processing speed and detection accuracy.
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spelling doaj.art-0d77ef80fa364c7cbe6dc722746780792024-02-09T06:05:57ZengD. G. PylarinosEngineering, Technology & Applied Science Research2241-44871792-80362024-02-0114110.48084/etasr.6668A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and UmrahRiad Alharbey0Ameen Banjar1Yahia Said2Mohamed Atri3Mohamed Abid4Department of Information Systems and Technology, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Information Systems and Technology, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Northern Border University, Saudi ArabiaCollege of Computer Sciences, King Khalid University, Saudi ArabiaCES Laboratory, ENIS, University of Sfax, TunisiaIn today's digital world, some crowded venues still rely on outdated methods, such as counting people using counters or sensors at the entrance. These techniques generally fail in areas where people move randomly. Crowd management is an important challenge for ensuring human safety. This paper focuses on developing a crowd management system for Hajj and Umrah duty. Motivated by the recent artificial intelligence techniques and the availability of large-scale data, a crowd management system was established and is presented in this paper. Utilizing the most recent Deep Learning techniques, the proposed crowd management system will be charged with detecting human faces, face identification, tracking, and human face counting tasks. Face counting and detection will be achieved by computing the number of people in a given area. Face detection and tracking will be carried out for person identification, flow rate estimation, and security. The suggested crowd management system is composed of three key components: (1) face detection, (2) assignment of a specific identifier (ID) to each detected face, (3) each detected face will be compared to the stored faces in the dataset. If the detected face is identified, it will be assigned to its ID, or a new ID will be assigned. The crowd management system has been developed to improve the Cross-Stage Partial Network (CSPNet) with attention module integration. An attention module was employed to address object location challenges and a channel-wise attention module for determining the objects of focus. Extensive experiments on the WIDER FACE dataset proved the robustness of the proposed face detection module, which allows for building reliable crowd management and flow rate estimation systems through detecting, tracking, and counting human faces. The reported results demonstrated the power of the proposed method while achieving high detection performance in terms of processing speed and detection accuracy. https://etasr.com/index.php/ETASR/article/view/6668face countingface trackingdeep learningattention modulechannel-wise modulecrowd management
spellingShingle Riad Alharbey
Ameen Banjar
Yahia Said
Mohamed Atri
Mohamed Abid
A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and Umrah
Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research
face counting
face tracking
deep learning
attention module
channel-wise module
crowd management
title A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and Umrah
title_full A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and Umrah
title_fullStr A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and Umrah
title_full_unstemmed A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and Umrah
title_short A Human Face Detector for Big Data Analysis of Pilgrim Flow Rates in Hajj and Umrah
title_sort human face detector for big data analysis of pilgrim flow rates in hajj and umrah
topic face counting
face tracking
deep learning
attention module
channel-wise module
crowd management
url https://etasr.com/index.php/ETASR/article/view/6668
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