A lightweight object detection approach based on edge computing for mining industry

Abstract Coal Mining enterprises deploy numerous monitoring devices to ensure safe and efficient production using target detection technologies. However, deploying deep detection models on edge devices poses challenges due to high computational loads, impacting detection speed and accuracy. A mining...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Wahab Hanif, Zhanli Li, Zhenhua Yu, Rehmat Bashir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-11-01
Series:IET Image Processing
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.13228
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Summary:Abstract Coal Mining enterprises deploy numerous monitoring devices to ensure safe and efficient production using target detection technologies. However, deploying deep detection models on edge devices poses challenges due to high computational loads, impacting detection speed and accuracy. A mining target detection dataset has been created to address these issues, featuring key targets in coal mining scenes such as miners, safety helmets, and coal gangue. A model is proposed to improve real‐time performance for edge mining detection tasks. Detection performance is enhanced by incorporating a Pixel‐wise Normalization Spatial Attention Module (PN‐SAM) into the MobileNet‐v3 bneck structure and replacing the h‐swish activation function with Mish, providing more prosperous gradient information transfer. The proposed model, YOLO‐v4‐LSAM, shows a 3.2% mAP improvement on the VOC2012 dataset and a 2.4% improvement on the mining target dataset compared to YOLO‐v4‐Tiny, demonstrating its effectiveness in mining environments. These enhancements enable more accurate and efficient detection in resource‐constrained edge environments, contributing to safer and more reliable monitoring in coal mining operations.
ISSN:1751-9659
1751-9667