DriftNet: Aggressive Driving Behavior Classification using 3D EfficientNet Architecture
This work addresses a safety-critical problem for public transportation by detecting dangerous driving anomalies, though it is incremental as it adapts existing methods to a new domain.
The paper tackles the problem of detecting aggressive driving behavior (car drifting) in videos by proposing a 3D neural network architecture based on EfficientNet, achieving competitive performance on a new dataset created in a Saudi Arabian context.
Aggressive driving (i.e., car drifting) is a dangerous behavior that puts human safety and life into a significant risk. This behavior is considered as an anomaly concerning the regular traffic in public transportation roads. Recent techniques in deep learning proposed new approaches for anomaly detection in different contexts such as pedestrian monitoring, street fighting, and threat detection. In this paper, we propose a new anomaly detection framework applied to the detection of aggressive driving behavior. Our contribution consists in the development of a 3D neural network architecture, based on the state-of-the-art EfficientNet 2D image classifier, for the aggressive driving detection in videos. We propose an EfficientNet3D CNN feature extractor for video analysis, and we compare it with existing feature extractors. We also created a dataset of car drifting in Saudi Arabian context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLzgye1-d1k . To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that addresses the problem of aggressive driving behavior using deep learning.