Automatic detection of motorcyclists without helmet

Motorcycle accidents have been rapidly growing throughout the years in many countries. Due to various social and economic factors, this type of vehicle is becoming increasingly popular. The helmet is the main safety equipment of motorcyclists, but many drivers do not use it. If an motorcyclist is without helmet an accident can be fatal. This paper aims to explain and illustrate an automatic method for motorcycles detection and classification on public roads and a system for automatic detection of motorcyclists without helmet. For this, a hybrid descriptor for features extraction is proposed based in Local Binary Pattern, Histograms of Oriented Gradients and the Hough Transform descriptors. Traffic images captured by cameras were used. The best result obtained from classification was an accuracy rate of 0.9767, and the best result obtained from helmet detection was an accuracy rate of 0.9423.