Building a System for Safety Helmet Detection Based on YOLOv5

Building a System for Safety Helmet Detection Based on YOLOv5

Object detection is a straightforward task for humans, but programming an application can be complex. In this project, we’ll fine-tune a neural network architecture called YOLO (You Only Look Once) to tackle this challenge. YOLO is an open-source architecture built on PyTorch with a strong track record in image detection tasks. We’ll use it to detect safety helmets in a publicly available dataset from Kaggle. The dataset contains approximately 5,000 images from work sites, annotated with three object classes: helmet, head, and person.