Advancing Public Safety with Real-Time Life Jacket Detection and Demographic Profiling Using YOLOv8 and Age Classification

This study introduces a robust life jacket identification system that incorporates YOLOv8, FaceNet, and AgeNet for real-time safety surveillance in settings such as beaches, swimming pools, and maritime activities. The YOLOv8 model is applied for detecting life jackets, while FaceNet and AgeNet do face recognition and age classification, respectively, dividing persons into age groupings like "Teenager" or "Adult." The technology proficiently recognizes life jackets, detects faces, and evaluates risk by analyzing demographic factors, such as age, to generate safety alerts. The model attained a remarkable precision of 0.9934, a recall of 0.9818, and mAP50 of 0.9948, therefore validating its efficacy in recognizing life jackets and identifying individuals at risk. In high-risk aquatic situations, real-time life jacket detection, age classification, and facial recognition make the system resilient and reliable, improving public safety and risk management.