• Smart Media Journal
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.90-101
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• 2022

Buses are a popular means of transportation. As such, thorough preparation is needed for passenger safety management. However, the safety system is insufficient because there are accidents such as a death accident occurred when the bus departed without recognizing the elderly approaching to get on in 2018. There is a safety system that prevents pinching accidents through sensors on the back door stairs, but such a system does not prevent accidents that occur in the process of getting on and off like the above accident. If it is possible to predict the intention of bus passengers to get on and off, it will help to develop a safety system to prevent such accidents. However, studies predicting the intention of passengers to get on and off are insufficient. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a 1×1 CNN3D-based getting on and off intention prediction model using skeleton keypoints of passengers extracted from the camera image attached to the bus through UDP-Pose. The proposed model shows approximately 1~2% higher accuracy than the RNN and LSTM models in predicting passenger's getting on and off intentions.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.57-66
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• 2023

In this paper, we present a study on an AI-based system utilizing the CCTV system within city buses to predict the intentions of boarding and alighting passengers, with the aim of preventing accidents. The proposed system employs the YOLOv7 Pose model to detect passengers, while utilizing an LSTM model to predict intentions of tracked passengers. The system can be installed on the bus's CCTV terminals, allowing for real-time visual confirmation of passengers' intentions throughout driving. It also provides alerts to the driver, mitigating potential accidents during passenger transitions. Test results show accuracy rates of 0.81 for analyzing boarding intentions and 0.79 for predicting alighting intentions onboard. To ensure real-time performance, we verified that a minimum of 5 frames per second analysis is achievable in a GPU environment. his algorithm enhance the safety of passenger transitions during bus operations. In the future, with improved hardware specifications and abundant data collection, the system's expansion into various safety-related metrics is promising. This algorithm is anticipated to play a pivotal role in ensuring safety when autonomous driving becomes commercialized. Additionally, its applicability could extend to other modes of public transportation, such as subways and all forms of mass transit, contributing to the overall safety of public transportation systems.