A Yolo-based Violence Detection Method in IoT Surveillance Systems

Abstract

Violence detection in Internet of Things (IoT)-based surveillance systems has become a critical research area due to their potential to provide early warnings and enhance public safety. There have been many types of research on vision-based systems for violence detection, including traditional and deep learning-based methods. Deep learning-based methods have shown great promise in ameliorating the efficiency and accuracy of violence detection. Despite the recent advances in violence detection using deep learning-based methods, significant limitations and research challenges still need to be addressed, including the development of standardized datasets and real-time processing. This study presents a deep learning method based on You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm for the violence detection task to overcome these issues. We generate a model for violence detection using violence and non-violence images in a prepared dataset divided into testing, validation, and training sets. Based on accepted performance indicators, the produced model is assessed. The experimental results and performance evaluation show that the method accurately identifies violence and non-violence classes in real-time.