Detecting violent scenes in movies using Gated Recurrent Units and Discrete Wavelet Transform

The easiness of accessing video on various platforms can negatively impact if not done wisely, especially for children. Parental supervision is needed so that movies platforms avoid inappropriate displays such as violence. Violent scenes in movies can trigger children to commit acts of violence, which is not desired. Unfortunately, it is not easy to supervise them fully. This study proposed a method for automatic detection of violent scenes in movies. Automatic violence detection assists the parents and censorship institutions in detecting violence easily. This study uses Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) algorithm and wavelet as feature extraction to detect violent scenes. This paper shows comparative studies on the variation of the mother wavelet. The experimental results show that GRU is robust and deliver the best performance accuracy of 0.96 while combining with mother wavelet Symlet and Coiflets8. The combination of GRU with wavelet Coiflets8 shows better results than the predecessor

Emotion recognition and school violence detection from children speech

Abstract School violence is a serious problem all over the world, and violence detection is significant to protect juveniles. School violence can be detected from the biological signals of victims, and emotion recognition is an important way to detect violence events. In this research, a violence simulation experiment was designed and performed for school violence detection system. Emotional voice from the experiment was extracted and analyzed. Consecutive elimination process (CEP) algorithm was proposed for emotion recognition in this paper. After parameters optimization, SVM was chosen as the classifier and the algorithm was validated by Berlin database which is an emotional speech database of adults, and the mean accuracy for seven emotions was 79.05%. The emotional speech database of children extracted in violence simulation was also classified by SVM classifier with proposed CEP algorithm, and the mean accuracy was 66.13%. The results showed that high classification performance could be achieved with the CEP algorithm. The classification result was also compared with database of adults, and the results indicated that children and adults’ voice should be treated differently in speech emotion recognition researches. The accuracy of children database is lower than adult database; the accuracy of violence detection will be improved by other signals in the system