China Safety Science Journal ›› 2025, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (1): 60-66.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2025.01.0147

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Mining truck driver fatigue driving detection based on improved YOLOv8

GU Qinghua1,2(), YIN Shutan1,2, WANG Dan1,2, LI Xuexian1,2, YIN Huimin3   

  1. 1 School of Resource Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an Shaanxi 710055, China
    2 Key Laboratory of Perception, Computing and Decision Making for Intelligent Industry, Xi'an Shaanxi 710055, China
    3 Hami Hexiang Industry and Trade Co., Ltd., Hami Xinjiang 839200, China
  • Received:2024-08-13 Revised:2024-10-22 Online:2025-01-28 Published:2025-07-28

Abstract:

To address the high rates of missed detections and false alarms, as well as the poor robustness in fatigue driving detection for open-pit mine truck drivers, a fatigue driving detection model for mine truck drivers (EBS-YOLO) based on the improved YOLOv8 is constructed to enhance the overall performance of fatigue detection. Firstly, YOLOv8 was used as the basic model for fatigue detection, and a small target detection layer was added to enhance the model's attention to small targets. Secondly, the bottleneck attention module (BAM) was used to improve the model performance to extract small target features, especially eye features. Finally, all cross-stage aggregation modules (C2f) in the backbone network were replaced with efficient multi-scale attention (EMA) modules, thereby effectively reducing model parameters and computational overhead to meet the requirements of a lightweight model. The results showed that the improved YOLOv8 model had a great detection effect with the accuracy, recall rate, and average detection accuracy reaching 93.6%, 93.9%, and 96.5%, respectively, and the memory size of the model was only 4.9 MB. Compared with the YOLOv8 model, the improved model can quickly and accurately identify the fatigue state of mining truck drivers, meet real-time requirements, and effectively prevent fatigue-driving accidents.

Key words: open-pit mines, fatigue driving detection, truck driver, detection of small targets, YOLOv8

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