Behaviour detection in crowded classroom scenes via enhancing features robust to scale and perspective variations

Abstract Detecting human behaviours in images of crowded classroom scenes is a challenging task, due to the large variations of humans in scale and pose perspective. In this paper, two modules are proposed to tackle these two variations. First, an attention‐based RoI (region‐of‐interest) extractor i...

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Main Authors: Mingyu Liu, Fanman Meng, Qingbo Wu, Linfeng Xu, Qianghua Liao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-12-01
Series:IET Image Processing
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12318
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Summary:Abstract Detecting human behaviours in images of crowded classroom scenes is a challenging task, due to the large variations of humans in scale and pose perspective. In this paper, two modules are proposed to tackle these two variations. First, an attention‐based RoI (region‐of‐interest) extractor is designed to handle scale variation. Feature fusion and attention mechanism are used to improve the RoI feature with more local and global information. Second, a transformation‐based detection head is introduced to handle perspective variation. The spatial transformation is adopted to extract consistent representation under various perspectives. Moreover, since there is a lack of proper datasets for human behaviour detection in classroom scenes, a new dataset is created, namely CLBD. The experiments on the proposed dataset demonstrate that the modules obtain significant improvements of performance over the state‐of‐the‐art detectors.
ISSN:1751-9659
1751-9667