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Effective accident management acts as a vital part of emergency and traffic control systems. In such systems, accident data can be collected from different sources (unmanned aerial vehicles, surveillance cameras, on-site people, etc.) and images are considered a major source. Accident site photos and measurements are the most important evidence. Attackers will steal data and breach personal privacy, causing untold costs. The massive number of images commonly employed poses a significant challenge to privacy preservation, and image encryption can be used to accomplish cloud storage and secure image transmission. Automated severity estimation using deep-learning (DL) models becomes essential for effective accident management. Therefore, this article presents a novel Privacy Preserving Image Encryption with Optimal Deep-Learning-based Accident Severity Classification (PPIE-ODLASC) method. The primary objective of the PPIE-ODLASC algorithm is to securely transmit the accident images and classify accident severity into different levels. In the presented PPIE-ODLASC technique, two major processes are involved, namely encryption and severity classification (i.e., high, medium, low, and normal). For accident image encryption, the multi-key homomorphic encryption (MKHE) technique with lion swarm optimization (LSO)-based optimal key generation procedure is involved. In addition, the PPIE-ODLASC approach involves YOLO-v5 object detector to identify the region of interest (ROI) in the accident images. Moreover, the accident severity classification module encompasses Xception feature extractor, bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU) classification, and Bayesian optimization (BO)-based hyperparameter tuning. The experimental validation of the proposed PPIE-ODLASC algorithm is tested utilizing accident images and the outcomes are examined in terms of many measures. The comparative examination revealed that the PPIE-ODLASC technique showed an enhanced performance of 57.68 dB over other existing models.

Thermal cameras, as opposed to RBG cameras, work effectively in extremely low illumination situations and can record data outside of the human visual spectrum. For surveillance and security applications, thermal images have several benefits. However, due to the little visual information in thermal images and intrinsic similarity of facial heat maps, completing face identification tasks in the thermal realm is particularly difficult. It can be difficult to attempt identification across modalities, such as when trying to identify a face in thermal images using the ground truth database for the matching visible light domain or vice versa. We proposed a method for detecting objects and actions on thermal human face images, based on the classification of five different features (hat, glasses, rotation, normal, and hat with glasses) in this paper. This model is presented in five steps. To improve the results of feature extraction during the pre-processing step, initially, we resize the images and then convert them to grayscale level using a median filter. In addition, features are extracted from pre-processed images using principle component analysis (PCA). Furthermore, the horse herd optimization algorithm (HOA) is employed for feature selection. Then, to detect the human face in thermal images, the LeNet-5 method is used. It is utilized to detect objects and actions in face areas. Finally, we classify the objects and actions on faces using the ANU-Net approach with the Monarch butterfly optimization (MBO) algorithm to achieve higher classification accuracy. According to experiments using the Terravic Facial Infrared Database, the proposed method outperforms “state-of-the-art” methods for face recognition in thermal images. Additionally, the results for several facial recognition tasks demonstrate good precision.