Automated methods for activity recognition of construction workers and equipment: State-of-the-art review

B Sherafat, CR Ahn, R Akhavian… - Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Equipment and workers are two important resources in the construction industry.
Performance monitoring of these resources would help project managers improve the …

Smart infrastructure: a vision for the role of the civil engineering profession in smart cities

EZ Berglund, JG Monroe, I Ahmed… - Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Smart city programs provide a range of technologies that can be applied to solve
infrastructure problems associated with ageing infrastructure and increasing demands. The …

[HTML][HTML] Activity recognition of construction equipment using fractional random forest

AK Langroodi, F Vahdatikhaki, A Doree - Automation in construction, 2021 - Elsevier
The monitoring and tracking of construction equipment, eg, excavators, is of great interest to
improve the productivity, safety, and sustainability of construction projects. In recent years …

Feasibility study to identify brain activity and eye-tracking features for assessing hazard recognition using consumer-grade wearables in an immersive virtual …

M Noghabaei, K Han, A Albert - Journal of Construction …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Hazard recognition is vital to achieving effective safety management. Unmanaged or
unrecognized hazards on construction sites can lead to unexpected accidents. Recent …

Sound-based multiple-equipment activity recognition using convolutional neural networks

B Sherafat, A Rashidi, S Asgari - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Automatically recognizing activities of heavy construction equipment using sound data has
recently received considerable attention as a promising research area in construction …

Evidence-driven sound detection for prenotification and identification of construction safety hazards and accidents

YC Lee, M Shariatfar, A Rashidi, HW Lee - Automation in Construction, 2020 - Elsevier
As the construction industry experiences a high rate of casualties and significant economic
loss associated with accidents, safety has always been a primary concern. In response …

MS-DLD: Multi-sensors based daily locomotion detection via kinematic-static energy and body-specific HMMs

YY Ghadi, M Javeed, M Alarfaj, T Al Shloul… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
More adaptable and user-independent techniques are required for multi-sensors based
daily locomotion detection (MS-DLD). This research study proposes a couple of locomotion …

Deep recurrent neural networks for audio classification in construction sites

M Scarpiniti, D Comminiello, A Uncini… - 2020 28th European …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a Deep Recurrent Neural Network (DRNN) approach based on
Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) units for the classification of audio signals recorded in …

Deep Belief Network based audio classification for construction sites monitoring

M Scarpiniti, F Colasante, S Di Tanna, M Ciancia… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a Deep Belief Network (DBN) based approach for the
classification of audio signals to improve work activity identification and remote surveillance …

Synthesizing pose sequences from 3D assets for vision-based activity analysis

W Torres Calderon, D Roberts… - Journal of Computing in …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
In recent years, computer vision algorithms have shown to effectively leverage visual data
from jobsites for video-based activity analysis of construction equipment. However …