Vision-Based Motorcycle Crash Detection and Reporting Using Deep Learning

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Vision-Based Motorcycle Crash Detection and Reporting Using Deep
Learning
Sanjit Gawade1, Nadine Dias2
1Student, Information Technology Department, Goa College of Engineering, India
2Assistant Professor, Information Technology Department, Goa College of Engineering, India
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Abstract - In recent years, two-wheelers have gained
popularity amongst daily commuters, youngsters, and urban
residents as two-wheelers are easy to operate in congested
traffic conditions and are fuel-efficient. With the increase in
the number of vehicles on road, there has been a significant
increase in road accidents. When we compare safety features
offered on vehicles, motorcycles are equipped with the least
features compared to cars and other vehicles. This project
endeavors to provide a means to explore a vision-only
approach to detecting traffic anomalies. Considering thereal-
time operating aspect of the system, the YOLOv4 algorithm is
considered for object detection and classification. The
algorithm is trained using a custom dataset with 398 images
of road anomalies involving a motorcycle. The Model
performed exceptionally well and achieved mAP@50 of 74%
and precision of 60%.
Key Words: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Yolov4,
Object detection, Real-time, CNN.
1. INTRODUCTION
One of the most compelling types of artificial intelligence is
computer vision. Computer vision is the field of computer
science that focuses on understanding complex human
vision systems and enabling a computer to identify and
process information in images and video streams like
humans do. The application of computer vision is expanding
in fields like healthcare, surveillance, action and activity
recognition, military, agriculture, and manufacturing.
Computer vision algorithms analyze certain criteria in
images and videos and then apply interpretation to
predictiveordecision-makingtasks.Computervisionmodels
are designed to translate visual data based on feature and
contextual data learned during training.
Convolutional Neural Network is the foundation of modern
computer vision algorithms. CV algorithms are based on
CNN, which provides a dramatic performance improvement
compared to traditional image processing algorithms. CNNs
are neural networks with a multi-layeredarchitecturethatis
used to gradually reduce data and calculation to the most
relevant set.
After the initial survey of automated accident detection
systems, it was identified that existing systems are mainly
based on GPS and GSM technology, and ultrasonic and
impact sensors inside cars to detect and report the
occurrence of an accident. Researchers are working on
vision-based accident detection, it was observed that those
systems were trained usingcarsandheavyvehicledata.Such
systems are based on finding acceleration anomaly,
trajectory anomaly, and change in angle anomaly [1], this
approach is effective to determine car accidents in normal
traffic flow and good visibility conditions and requires post-
processing of data.
Our proposed system emphasizes a vision-only approach to
detect anomalies on road. The main focus is to detect
motorcycle accidents, as there are fewer safety features on
motorcycles, and injuries attained may prevent a wounded
person from contacting emergency medical services and
receiving medical attention. This research endeavors to
provide a means to explore a vision-only approach to
detecting traffic anomalies. The main focus is to detect
incidents involving motorcycles, as there are fewer safety
features on motorcycles, and injuriesattainedmaypreventa
wounded person from contacting emergency medical
services. Considering the real-time operating aspect of the
system, 3 algorithms were finalized Faster-RCNN, Yolov4,
and Yolov4-Tiny. After training the models,itwasfoundthat
the YOLOv4 algorithmOutperformsFasterR-CNN intermsof
speed and Yolov4-Tiny in terms of accuracy. The algorithms
were trained using a custom dataset with398imagesofroad
anomalies involving a motorcycle. The Yolov4 Model
performed exceptionallywell andachievedmAP@50of74%
and precision of 60%.
2. Related work
The evolution of object detection started in the early 2000s.
They followed the low and mid-level vision and followedthe
method of recognition by components. This method enabled
object detection as a measurement of similaritybetweenthe
object components, shapes, and contours and the feature
that were taken into consideration were shape context,
edgelessness, and distance transformation.[doi2000].object
detection genre was not making any progress as the
performance of hand-crafted features became saturated.
However in 2012, with the advancement in convolutional
neural networks and deep convolutional networks, they
were successful at learning robust and high-level feature
representations of an image. The deadlocks of object

detection were broken in 2014 by the proposal of the
Regions with CNN features (RCNN) for object detection. In
this deep learning era, object detection is grouped into two
genres: two-stage detection and one-stage detection.
Traffic accidents have a short duration in drivingvideos,and
the backgrounds of driving videos aredynamic andcomplex.
These make traffic accident detection quite challenging. To
effectively and efficiently detect accidents from the driving
videos [2], in this work researchers have proposed an
accident detection approach based on Spatio-temporal
feature encoding with a multilayer neural network. A
multilayer neural network is used to encode the temporal
features of video for clustering the video frames. From the
frame cluster obtained by encoding they detect the border
frames as the potential accident frames.
In this work[5], “A review of object detection based on deep
learning” by Xiao, Y., Tian, Z., Yu, J. Authors have compared
traditional feature-based methods with the deep learning
object detection methods for both low-level and high-level
image features. This work includes a detailed study of
backbone networks, loss function, andtrainingstrategiesfor
the deep convolutional neural network.
In this work[4], Fast car accident detection in videos, by V.
Machaca Arceda and E. Laura Riveros. The authors have
proposed a three-stage proposal to detect fast car accidents.
First using convolutional neural networksobjectdetectionis
performed, You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm is used;
the second stage is
a tracker to focus on each car; then the final stage for each
car they have used the Violent Flow descriptor with a
Support Vector Machine (SVM) to detect the car crashes.
3. Methodology
Building a network model to perform accident detection on
real-time video we propose to train 3 algorithms to analyze
their accuracy and inference speed
Our approach consists of
A. Building a custom dataset.
B. Training the candidate algorithms on the custom
dataset.
C. Perform analysis
D. Used best-performing model weights for accident
detection.
E. Build a Darknet on a local system to run inference
on live videos.
Using best-performing model weights, build a
darknet to detect motorcycle accidents,andoncean
accident is detected generate an alert.
4. Dataset
There are only a few high-resolution datasets publically
available for accident detection. While conducting the
literature survey, it was observed that the datasets were
densely populated with accidents involving four-wheelers,
which fall under the category of large objects. To serve our
purpose of detecting motorcycle crashes a new data set was
composed of videos sourced from the web, containing CCTV
footage involving a motorcycle accident. Using a python
script, the video sequence data is broken down into
individual frames and stored in jpg format. 166 unique
images containing incidents involving a motorcycle, from
905 extracted frames containing are selected to train the
network.
Image annotation is the process of labeling an image, which
provides the location and class labels of the objects present
in the image to the computer vision model. Roboflow
annotation tool is used to annotate the images, there are six
distinct class labels used while annotating the images. The
classes are Accident, Bike, Person, Truck, Car, and Bus.
Preprocessing is applied to training, validation, and testing
set to assure learning and inferenceoccuronthesameimage
properties. The images have been resized from 1920x1080
to 416x416 to maintain the SxS aspect ratio used by the
YOLO algorithm.
Dataset Augmentation is performed on the dataset to
increase the diversity of the data. To train the algorithm for
low-light scenes a grayscale filter is applied and the
brightness level is adjusted to mimic night conditions. A
gaussian blur filter is also applied to represent adverse
weather conditions
Fig -1: Dataset After performing augmentation

4.1 Test/Train Split
After performing augmentation the total number of samples
in the dataset is 398 images.Out of which 348 are usedinthe
training set for the algorithm, 25 samples are used in the
validation set, and 25 samples are kept for testing purposes.
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5. Implementation
The research was conducted in 4 phases, at each phase
different algorithm was trained on the same dataset and
evaluated for Accuracy, mean Average Precision, recall, and
Speed.
1 Phase 1
In phase 1 Faster R-CNN algorithm was trained for
2000 iterations. We achieved Average precision of
34% with a recall rate of 29.57 and mAP@50 66.52
Fig -2: Performance of Faster R-CNN for individual class
2 Phase 2
In Phase 2 Yolov4 algorithm was trained for 2000
iterations with the default configuration. We
achieved Average precision of 50% with a recall
rate of 37 and mAP@50 of 40.02.
Fig -2: Performance of Yolov4 for individual class
3 Phase 3
In Phase 1 Yolov4-Tiny algorithm was trained for
10000 iterations with the default configuration.We
rate of 11% and mAP@50 of 32.23%
Fig -3: Performance of Yolov4-Tiny for individual class
4 Phase 4
In Phase 4 Yolov4 algorithm was trained for 2000
iterations with a reduced batch size of12,insteadof
64 in the default configuration. No pre-trained
weights were used to train the backbone CNN. We
rate of 67 and mAP@50 of 74.3
Fig -4: Performance of Yolov4 with a custom configuration
for individual class
5.1 Accident Detection on a video stream
With the help of cuDNN Darknet was builtona local machine
and weights from Yolov4 with a custom configuration were
used to detect motorcycle anomalies. The model was
successfully able to detect accidents from the video stream
and upon detecting accidents a snapshotwascapturedof the
accident and sent over to emergency response contact via
email.

Fig -5: Accident Detection on a video stream
Fig -6: E-mail Alert
5.2 Analysis
Fig -7: Performance of Analysis of Algorithms
After conducting the experiments it was observed that the
Yolov4 algorithm with custom configuration performed the
best. By reducing the batch size, the time it takes to train the
model was drastically reduced by 67% and mAP@0.5 of
74.3% was achieved. The model achieved an average fps of
21.2 Frames per second.
The Faster R-CNN model can successfully identify accidents
on images but failed to detect objects on a video stream.
Yolov4-Tiny is very fast, running inferences at an average of
58 fps, and the accuracy of detecting the object was low.
5. Conclusion
Vision-only approach to detection was successfully
implemented and tested. Single-stage detectors like Yolov4
are suitable for real-time computer vision applications as
they maintain the balance between accuracy and speed.
Two-stage detectors are very slow for real-time application
use, if high accuracy is the final goal, two-stagedetectors are
a suitable choice due to the dense network theycangenerate
better feature maps and identify objects with highprecision.
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