Lightweight Deep Residual Network for Motorcyclist Behavior Recognition Using Inertial Sensors

Motorcyclist behavior recognition (MBR) is a significant factor in improving road safety and preventing accidents. Inertial sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers, have shown promising potential for capturing the dynamic behavior of motorcyclists. However, existing approaches often require complex models and significant computational resources, limiting their deployment in real-world scenarios. This study presents a MotoNeXt architecture, which is a light deep residual network for correctly identifying the behavior of motorcyclists using data from inertial sensors. Our approach leverages the power of deep learning while maintaining a compact model size, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments. The proposed network incorporates multi-kernel residual blocks to facilitate the learning of hierarchical features and improve gradient flow during training. We evaluate our method on a publicly available benchmark dataset, MB-IMU, collected from multiple riders under various riding conditions. Experimentation has shown that our lightweight model achieves cutting-edge performance, outperforming a variety of existing techniques. In Scenario I, using accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data, MotoNeXt achieved an accuracy result of 78.90088% along with an F1-score of 81.56738%. According to Scenario II, which included additional sensor data such as VelInc, OriInc, and Euler angles, MotoNeXt further improved its performance, achieving an accuracy result of 83.29735% along with an F1-score of 84.95352%. The proposed approach offers a practical solution for real-time MBR, enabling the development of intelligent transportation systems and rider assistance technologies. Our experiments highlight the effectiveness of lightweight deep learning models in extracting meaningful patterns from inertial sensor data. This opens up opportunities for further investigation in this field.