SafeNet: An Assistive Solution to Assess Incoming Threats for Premises (2002.04405v1)

Abstract: An assistive solution to assess incoming threats (e.g., robbery, burglary, gun violence) for homes will enhance the safety of the people with or without disabilities. This paper presents "SafeNet"- an integrated assistive system to generate context-oriented image descriptions to assess incoming threats. The key functionality of the system includes the detection and identification of human and generating image descriptions from the real-time video streams obtained from the cameras placed in strategic locations around the house. In this paper, we focus on developing a robust model called "SafeNet" to generate image descriptions. To interact with the system, we implemented a dialog enabled interface for creating a personalized profile from face images or videos of friends/families. To improve computational efficiency, we apply change detection to filter out frames that do not have any activity and use Faster-RCNN to detect the human presence and extract faces using Multitask Cascaded Convolutional Networks (MTCNN). Subsequently, we apply LBP/FaceNet to identify a person. SafeNet sends image descriptions to the users with an MMS containing a person's name if any match found or as "Unknown", scene image, facial description, and contextual information. SafeNet identifies friends/families/caregiver versus intruders/unknown with an average F-score 0.97 and generates image descriptions from 10 classes with an average F-measure 0.97.