Heterogeneous Ensemble Approaches for Robust Face Mask Detection in Crowd Scenes

Authors

  • Xufeng Hu Department of Software, Korea National University of Transportation, Republic of Korea https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5383-6421
  • Younghoon Jeon Department of Software, Korea National University of Transportation, Republic of Korea
  • Jeonghwan Gwak Department of Software and Department of IT & Energy Convergence, Korea National University of Transportation, Republic of Korea https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6237-0141

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewJCCE3202478

Keywords:

face mask detection, crowd scenes, deep learning, heterogeneous ensemble

Abstract

Face masks are one of the effective tools to slow the spread of disease and reduce medical overload by protecting people from infectious diseases including COVID-19. To prevent infection from respiratory droplets, it is imperative to wear a mask that covers the nose and mouth completely. However, it is difficult to make it mandatory for crowds to wear masks in public places where many people gather. For example, detecting incorrect mask-wearing in crowded scenes is a tedious and attention-grabbing task. Therefore, the success of deep learning in computer vision motivates automated monitoring systems. However, deep learning-based detection models are unstable if the domain task is changed and may have different strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, in this study, we propose a heterogeneous ensemble-based detection model for robust face mask detection in crowd scenes. First, independent detection models such as You look Only Ones (YOLO) v6, YOLO v7, and Faster R-CNN are employed for the model ensemble. Second, the prediction results obtained from the detection models are post-processed such as merging, non-maximum suppression, and weighted box fusion. The experimental results show that the classification performance of our proposed model has an F1 score of about 90.5% and that the improvement of the generalization ability due to the ensemble strategy contributed to the improvement of the classification performance.

 

Received: 21 October 2022 | Revised: 7 February 2023 | Accepted: 12 February 2023

 

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

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Published

2023-03-02

How to Cite

Hu, X., Jeon, Y., & Gwak, J. (2023). Heterogeneous Ensemble Approaches for Robust Face Mask Detection in Crowd Scenes. Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering, 2(4), 343–351. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewJCCE3202478

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