A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Video Object Detection
A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Video Object Detection
Abstract:- The rapid growth of video data in various techniques are responsible for these advancements. Google,
domains has led to an increased demand for effective and Facebook, Microsoft, and Snapchat have all developed
efficient methods to analyze and extract valuable applications as a recent breakthroughs in deep learning and
information from videos. Deep learning methods have computer vision. Vision-based technology has evolved over
demonstrated exceptional performance success in object time from a simple sensing modality to intelligent computing
detection, but their performance heavily relies on large- systems that are able to comprehend their surroundings. Of
scale labeled datasets. This study proposes a novel model late, Object detection has drawn attention, partly due to its
for object detection from video by combining deep extensive scope of potential deployment and partly because of
learning and transfer learning algorithms. The use of the recent advances in the field. Frames are the sequences of
power of CNN to learn spatio temporal features in the images that we see in videos which are played at faster rates
video frames are employed to propose the model. To so that we see motion and continuity in their sequences.
address the limited labeled video data, transfer learning is
employed, which is previously-trained CNN method, such Deep learning has been used extensively in many
as ResNet50, is refined on the UCF101, Sports1M and applications of computer vision, such as classifying images,
Youtube8M Video datasets. Transfer learning enables the recognizing objects within images, and segmenting images
model to learn generalizable features from these rich into meaningful parts, and human pose estimation [1].
datasets, enhancing its ability to detect objects in unseen Detecting objects in videos with accuracy has the potential to
videos. Furthermore, the proposed model incorporates improve video classification, video captioning and other
temporal information by employing LSTM and 3D related surveillance applications. Recently, image object
convolutional networks to capture the motion dynamics detection performance has been boosted by including, well
across consecutive frames. Spatial and temporal features known detection approaches based on deep learning, such as
fusion enhance the robustness and accuracy of object the YOLO [2] or Mask CNN [3]. However, there still exists a
detection. Proposed model is used extensively to evaluate significant gap between the performance of object detection
on the UCF101, Sports1M and YouTube8M Dataset. The on images and video, largely because video data are hostile to
proposed model effectively determines the results that artifacts and clutter as well as challenging aspects like
show localizing and classifying objects in video sequences, occlusions, blur, or rare object poses.
outperforming existing cutting-edge methods. Overall, the
novel research provides a promising approach for object In this research, we focus on two main strategies that
detection in video, showcasing the Deep learning & have been extensively investigated to improve object
transfer learning algorithms' potential in tackling the detection in videos. These strategies aim to address the issues
challenges of limited labeled video data and exploiting the related to object occlusion, motion blur, scale variations, and
spatio-temporal context for improved object detection temporal consistency, which often arise in video-based
performance. scenarios. The first strategy involves the incorporation of
temporal information. Unlike static images, videos provide a
Keywords:- Video Object Detection; Deep Learning; rich temporal context that can be leveraged to increase the
Convolutional Neural Networks; Spatial-Temporal Feature; precision of object detection. Information of Temporal from
LSTM. video can be utilized in various ways, like exploiting motion
cues, modeling temporal dependencies, or employing video-
I. INTRODUCTION based features. By considering the spatio-temporal
characteristics of objects, these approaches aim to enhance the
Humans are able to recognize and notice items in their detection robustness and temporal consistency across frames.
environment with ease, regardless of their location, regardless Several methods based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs),
of are they positioned in an upside-down manner or the colour optical flow, or long short-term memory (LSTM) have been
or texture is wrong, or whether they are altogether obscured. suggested to extract and exploit temporal cues for object
As a result, people make object detection seem easy. To detection in videos. The second strategy focuses on multi-
obtain details about the shapes and objects present in an frame fusion techniques. Instead of analyzing individual
image, computer-based object identification and recognition frames independently, these approaches aim to aggregate
requires a lot of processing. CNN and other cutting-edge information from multiple frames towards additional informed
Problem Formulation sequence and T denotes the total frame count for the video,
Within the domain of detection of object from videos, the task is to determine the bounding boxes and class labels
the goal is to accurately identify and localize objects across a for objects present in each frame. Additionally, the model
video frame sequence. Given a video segment V = {I1, I2, ..., must maintain temporal consistency across frames to handle
IT}, at which IT corresponds to the t-th frame within the video object motion, occlusions, and appearance changes, which are
Evaluation metrics include Precision which measures object detection in a video stream, and thus constrains the
the accuracy of detected objects by minimization of false performance in dynamic sequences.
positives as well as Recalled that assess the capability of
detection of all relevant objects. Evaluation is on mean The table compares the proposed model with T-CNN,
Average Precision (mAP) to get detection performance over SlowFast, Video Faster R-CNN, and STAM across key
thresholds, and Intersection of Union (IoU) to determine the metrics. The proposed model achieves the highest precision
level of correspondence between predicted and ground truth (89%), recall (85%), mAP (80%), IoU (75%), and temporal
boxes. Temporal Consistency is a stability metric of area consistency (87%), showcasing its superior object detection
performance and robustness over existing methods.
The graphs generated during the training and testing suggests that the model is generalizing well without
process of the novel approach of object detection model significant overfitting. Accuracy vs. Epoch Plot (Training
provide key insights into its performance over 20 epochs. and Validation) demonstrates continuous increase in
The Training and Validation Loss vs Epochs graph illustrates accuracy for both training and validation sets. By the epoch
that indicates that the model is effectively learning, as both of 20th, the training accuracy achieves a level near 99%,
the training and validation losses decrease steadily to while the validation accuracy becomes stable at 97%,
minimize errors on both the training and unseen data. The demonstrating that the model is successfully detecting objects
slight discrepancy between training and validation loss in both seen and unseen video frames.
Fig 5 Mean Average Precision (mAP) vs Epochs: Model Performance in Object Detection