• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.29-37
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• 2019

Since construction sites are exposed to outdoor environments, working conditions are significantly dangerous. Thus, wearing of the personal protective equipments such as safety helmet is very important for worker safety. However, construction workers are often wearing-off the helmet as inconvenient and uncomportable. As a result, a small mistake may lead to serious accident. For this, checking of wearing safety helmet is important task to safety managers in field. However, due to the limited time and manpower, the checking can not be executed for every individual worker spread over a large construction site. Therefore, if an automatic checking system is provided, field safety management should be performed more effectively and efficiently. In this study, applicability of deep learning based computer vision technology is investigated for automatic checking of wearing safety helmet in construction sites. Faster R-CNN deep learning algorithm for object detection and classification is employed to develop the automatic checking model. Digital camera images captured in real construction site are used to validate the proposed model. Based on the results, it is concluded that the proposed model may effectively be used for automatic checking of wearing safety helmet in construction site.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.77-83
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• 2019

Major causes of industrial accidents include falls and gas leak. The existing safety helmet and smart device combination products are focused on convenience, so the functions to prevent such accidents are insufficient. We developed a smart helmet focusing on fall accident detection and gas leak detection. We also developed management system to manage workers efficiently. Its core function is to detect dangerous conditions of employees, to communicate with managers and to confirm the situations of workers. The effectiveness of the combustible gas measurement capability was verified through experiments. However, since a significant amount of power consumption is founded due to continuous operation of the board and the sensor, countermeasures such as replacing with a large capacity battery are required.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2021

The leading source of occupational fatalities is a portable ladder in Korea because it is widely used in industry as work platform. In order to reduce victims, it is necessary to establish preventive measures for the accidents caused by portable ladder. Therefore, this study statistically analyzed injury death by portable ladder for recent 10 years to investigate the accident characteristics. Next, to monitor wearing of safety helmet in real-time while working on a portable ladder, this study developed an object detection model based on the You Only Look Once(YOLO) architecture, which can accurately detect objects within a reasonable time. The model was trained on 6,023 images with/without ladders and safety helmets. The performance of the proposed detection model was 0.795 for F1 score and 0.843 for mean average precision. In addition, the proposed model processed at least 25 frames per second which make the model suitable for real-time application.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.302-309
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• 2022

Occupational safety accidents are caused by various factors, and it is difficult to predict when and why they occur, and it is directly related to the lives of workers, so the interest in safety accidents is increasing every year. Therefore, in order to reduce safety accidents at industrial fields, workers are required to wear personal protective equipment. In this paper, we proposes a method to automatically check whether workers are wearing safety helmets among the protective equipment in the industrial field. It detects whether or not the helmet is worn using YOLOv5, a computer vision-based deep learning object detection algorithm. We transfer learning the s model among Yolov5 models with different learning rates and epochs, evaluate the performance, and select the optimal model. The selected model showed a performance of 0.959 mAP.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.399-407
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• 2019

In Korea, the construction industry has been known to have the highest risk of safety accidents compared to other industries. Therefore, in order to improve safety in the construction industry, several researches have been carried out from the past. This study aims at improving safety of labors in construction site by constructing an effective automatic safety helmet detection system using object detection algorithm based on image data of construction field. Deep learning was conducted using Region-based Fully Convolutional Network (R-FCN) which is one of the object detection algorithms based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with Transfer Learning technique. Learning was conducted with 1089 images including human and safety helmet collected from ImageNet and the mean Average Precision (mAP) of the human and the safety helmet was measured as 0.86 and 0.83, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1226-1274
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• 2022

In this paper, we dealt with a safety helmet for detecting dangerous situations that focuses on falling accidents and gas leaks, which are the main causes of industrial accidents. the fall situation range was set through gravity acceleration measurement using an acceleration sensor, and as a result, a fall detection rate of 80% could be confirmed. .In addition, the dangerous gas concentration was measured through a gas sensor, and when a digital value of 188 or more was output through a serial monitor, it was determined as a gas dangerous situation, and a fall warning message and a gas warning message could be checked through a smart-phone application produced based on the app inventor program.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.82-89
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• 2023

Due to the characteristics of ship structure, the compartment structure is complicated and narrow, so safety accidents frequently occur during the work process. The main causes of accidents include structural collisions, falling objects, toxic substance leaks, fires, explosions, asphyxiation, and more. Understanding the on-site conditions of workers during accidents is crucial for mitigating damages. In order to ensure safety, the on-site situation is monitored using CCTV in the ship, but it is difficult to prevent accidents with the existing method. To address this issue, a smart safety helmet equipped with location identification and voice/video communication capabilities is being developed as a safety technology. Additionally, the smart safety helmet incorporates environmental sensors for temperature, humidity, vibration, noise, tilt (gyro sensor), and gas detection within the work area. These sensors can notify workers wearing the smart safety helmet of hazardous situations. By utilizing the smart safety helmet and environmental sensors, the safety of workers aboard ships can be enhanced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.01a
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• pp.281-282
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• 2022

현재 전동 킥보드 헬멧 미착용으로 인한 사고가 끊임없이 야기되고 있다. 개인형 이동장치 이용자 수가 증가함에 따라 법 개정을 통하여 헬멧 착용이 의무 사항이지만 여전히 낮은 착용률을 나타내고 있다. 본 논문에서는 모든 공유 킥보드 회사에서 사용 가능한 딥러닝 기반의 전동킥보드 헬멧 착용 인식시스템을 제시한다. 타 공유 전동킥보드 회사 앱에서 본 논문의 결과물을 사용할 때는 사용자가 타사 앱에서 헬멧 인식 요청 시 자사 앱에서 헬멧 착용 여부를 인식하여 결과를 전송한다. 자사 앱 사용자는 인식 기록을 조회할 수 있고, 타사 관리자는 사용자의 정보를 조회 및 관리할 수 있다. 본 시스템을 통해 전동킥보드 이용 시 헬멧 착용을 장려하여 착용률 증가와 사고 시 인명피해 감소를 기대한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2022.01a
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• pp.39-40
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• 2022

최근 전동 킥보드, 전동휠, 전기 자전거 등 개인형 이동수단(Personal Mobility)의 보급이 늘면서 관련 인명 교통사고가 급증하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 개인형 이동수단의 사용위험 및 사고 감소를 목적으로, 딥러닝 객체탐지 기술을 적용하여 다양한 위험요소를 증강현실 기술을 기반으로 한 HMD(Helmet mounted display)에 표시하는 '딥러닝 객체 인식과 증강현실을 적용한 개인 이동장치를 위한 HMD(Helmet Mounted Display) 어플리케이션'을 설계한다. 제시하는 방법은 실시간으로 수집된 전방의 실시간 영상 정보를 객체 탐지 알고리즘을 통해 위험요소 및 안전한 주행을 보조하는 객체를 감지하고 증강현실을 적용해 사용자에게 적절한 운전 보조장치 및 기능을 제공한다.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.154-162
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• 2022

Purpose: The government intends to come up with measures to revitalize safety management at construction sites to shift safety management at construction sites from human capabilities to system-oriented management systems using advanced technologies AIoT and Mobile technologies. Method: The construction site safety management monitoring system using AIoT and Mobile technology conducted an experiment on the effectiveness of the construction site by applying three algorithms: virtual fence, fire monitoring, and recognition of not wearing a safety helmet. Result: The number of workers in the experiment was 215 and 7.61 virtual fence intrusion was 3.5% compared to the number of subjects and 0.16 fire detection were 0.07% compared to the subjects, and the average monthly rate of not wearing a safety helmet was 8.79, 4.05% compared to the subjects. Conclusion: It was found that the construction site safety management monitoring system using AIoT and Mobile technology has a valid effect on the construction site.