Hardhat-Wearing Detection for Enhancing On-Site Safety of Construction Workers

AbstractConstruction is one of the most dangerous job sectors, which annually reports tens of thousands of time-loss injuries and deaths. These injuries and deaths do not only bring suffering to the workers and their families, but also incur delays and costs to the projects. Therefore, safety is an important issue that a general contractor must monitor and control. One of the fundamental safety regulations is wearing a hardhat, which should not be violated anytime on the sites. In this paper, a novel vision-based method is proposed to automate the monitoring of whether people are wearing hardhats on the construction sites. Under the method, human bodies and hardhats are first detected in the video frames captured by on-site construction cameras. Then, the matching between the detected human bodies and hardhats is performed using their geometric and spatial relationship. This way, the people who are not wearing hardhats could be automatically identified and safety alerts could be issued correspondingly. Th...

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