Research on the Application of Intelligent Object Recognition System in Classroom Attendance and Student Behavior Analysis in Universities

In order to better understand the overall learning status of students, evaluate classroom attendance in universities, and promote the high-quality development of higher education, analyzing student behavior in the classroom is extremely important. Existing research on student behavior recognition primarily focuses on identifying individual students, with insufficient attention given to their interactions with surrounding objects. To more accurately detect the required targets within a classroom, this paper proposes a multi-target detection method based on an improved YOLOv5s model. Firstly, to address the issue of small-scale targets such as mobile phones and pens in the classroom scene, which have limited extractable features, this paper adopted measures to optimize the network structure. Secondly, considering the interference of irrelevant information such as classroom backgrounds and varying student attire in real classroom environments, which makes it difficult for the network to extract effective features, the triplet attention mechanism was introduced to enhance the network’s feature extraction capability. Finally, experiments were conducted on both a self-constructed dataset and a public dataset. The experimental results show that the mAP values of the improved network increased by 4.5 percentage point and 3.2 percentage point, respectively, verifying the effectiveness of the improvements.