Publication: Computer Vision Enabled Drowning Detection System
Type:
Article
Date
2021-12-09
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
2021 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT
Abstract
Safety is paramount in all swimming pools. The
current systems expected to address the problem of ensuring
safety at swimming pools have significant problems due to their
technical aspects, such as underwater cameras and
methodological aspects such as the need for human intervention
in the rescue mission. The use of an automated visual-based
monitoring system can help to reduce drownings and assure
pool safety effectively. This study introduces a revolutionary
technology that identifies drowning victims in a minimum
amount of time and dispatches an automated drone to save
them. Using convolutional neural network (CNN) models, it can
detect a drowning person in three stages. Whenever such a
situation like this is detected, the inflatable tube-mounted selfdriven
drone will go on a rescue mission, sounding an alarm to
inform the nearby lifeguards. The system also keeps an eye out
for potentially dangerous actions that could result in drowning.
This system's ability to save a drowning victim in under a
minute has been demonstrated in prototype experiments'
performance evaluations.
Description
Keywords
Drowning, Lifeguard system, Object detection, Computer vision, Pose estimation, Drone, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
