Research on intelligent risk early warning of open-pit blasting site based on deep learning

Abstract

ABSTRACT The safety of blasting site in open-pit mine can be greatly improved by risk early warning. Therefore, an intelligent real-time risk early warning method of blasting site in open-pit mine based on deep learning was proposed in this research. The mobile wireless webcams, H.264 video compression algorithm, and real-time transport protocol were applied to achieve real-time video acquisition and transmission of blasting site in open-pit mine. A single-stage deep neural network DG-YOLOv3 was proposed in this research. DG-YOLOv3 is an improvement of Gaussian YOLOv3, among which Darknet41 is used to improve the model’s detection speed and detection accuracy of small targets. To further improve the performance (i.e., speed and accuracy) of risk early warning, the surveillance videos were first split into pictures by frame. Then, the pictures were processed by weighted average grayscale and contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization. Experiments show that the mean average precision of DG-YOLOv3 proposed in this paper reaches 87.45 and the detection speed reaches 56.82 frames per second, which has better accuracy and speed compared with other algorithms. In addition, DG-YOLOv3 has good robustness in complex scenarios. Based on the detection results, the intelligent real-time risk early warning of the blasting site in open-pit mine is achieved finally.