Airline Baggage Appearance Transportability Detection Based on A Novel Dataset and Sequential Hierarchical Sampling CNN Model

• Main Authors: Qingji Gao, Peiwen Liang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Airport self-service bag drop dataset; airline baggage appearance transportability inspection; anchor-free object detection; multi-object tracking
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9376854/

Self-service bag drop efficiently assists passengers to check-in their baggage in the airport. Nevertheless, the baggage appearance transportability cannot be accurately detected by existing self-service bag drop equipment. We plan to adopt a convolutional neural network with video input to detect the appearance transportability of baggage. However, public baggage picture datasets are captured in the daily background, thus existing approaches trained on these datasets achieve imprecise performance for airport self-service bag drop. We introduce a new dataset for airport self-service bag drop named ASS-BD and a novel sequential hierarchical sampling multi-object tracker. Most of the video clips that comply with the consignment regulations were recorded in the airport scene. Video clips that do not comply with the consignment regulations were recorded in the laboratory simulation scene. A sequential hierarchical sampling multi-object tracking baseline is adopted to solve some problematic frames due to part occlusion, rare pose, and motion blur. We conduct experiments to demonstrate that our dataset is suitable for the airport self-service bag drop scenario. Our approach is capable of the inspection task of air baggage appearance transportability in real-time.