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Evaluating a Dual Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for Object-wise Anomaly Detection in Cluttered X-ray Security Imagery

Gaus, Y.F.A.; Bhowmik, N.; Akcay, A.; Guillen-Garcia, P.M.; Barker, J.W; Breckon, T.P.

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Authors

Y.F.A. Gaus

N. Bhowmik

A. Akcay

P.M. Guillen-Garcia

J.W Barker



Abstract

X-ray baggage security screening is widely used to maintain aviation and transport secure. Of particular interestis the focus on automated security X-ray analysis for particular classes of object such as electronics, electrical items and liquids. However, manual inspection of such items is challenging when dealing with potentially anomalous items. Here we present a dual convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for automatic anomaly detection within complex security X-ray imagery. We leverage recent advances in region-based (R-CNN), mask-based CNN (Mask R-CNN) and detection architectures such as RetinaNet to provide object localisation variants for specific object classes of interest. Subsequently, leveraging a range of established CNN object and fine-grained category classification approaches we formulate within object anomaly detection as a two-class problem (anomalous or benign). Whilst the best performing object localisation method is able to perform with 97.9% mean average precision (mAP) over a six-class X-ray object detection problem, subsequent two-class anomaly/benign classification is able to achieve 66% performance for within object anomaly detection. Overall, this performance illustrates both the challenge and promise of object-wise anomaly detection within the context of cluttered X-ray security imagery.

Citation

Gaus, Y., Bhowmik, N., Akcay, A., Guillen-Garcia, P., Barker, J., & Breckon, T. (2019). Evaluating a Dual Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for Object-wise Anomaly Detection in Cluttered X-ray Security Imagery. In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) ; proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn.2019.8851829

Conference Name Proc. Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Conference Location Budapest, Hungary
Acceptance Date Mar 7, 2019
Online Publication Date Jul 14, 2019
Publication Date 2019
Deposit Date Apr 2, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Series ISSN 2161-4407
Book Title 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) ; proceedings.
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn.2019.8851829

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