scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Variant Deep Learning Models for COVID-19 Protective Face Mask Detection

Author(s):  
Rohan Katari Et al.

The world is in the midst of a paramount pandemic owing to the rapid dissemination of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) brought about by the spread of the virus ‘SARS-CoV-2’. It is mainly transmitted among persons through airborne diffusion of droplets containing the virus produced by an infected person sneezing or coughing without covering their face. The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued numerous guidelines which state that the spread of this disease can be limited by people shielding their faces with protective face masks when in public or in crowded areas. As a precautionary measure, many nations have implemented obligations for face mask usage in public spaces. But manual monitoring of huge crowds in public spaces for face masks is laborious. Hence, this requires the development of an automated face mask detection system using deep learning models and related technologies. The detection system should be viable and deployable in real-time, predicting the result accurately so as to be used by monitoring bodies to ensure that the face mask guidelines are followed by the public thereby preventing the disease transmission. In this paper we aim to perform a comparative analysis of various sophisticated image classifiers based on deep learning, in terms of vital metrics of performance to identify the effective deep learning based model for face mask detection.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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V. H. Benitez-Baltazar

A new and deadly virus known as SARS-CoV-2, which is responsible for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is spreading rapidly around the world causing more than 3 million deaths. Hence, there is an urgent need to find new and innovative ways to reduce the likelihood of infection. One of the most common ways of catching the virus is by being in contact with droplets delivered by a sick person. The risk can be reduced by wearing a face mask as suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO), especially in closed environments such as classrooms, hospitals, and supermarkets. However, people hesitate to use a face mask leading to an increase in the risk of spreading the disease, moreover when the face mask is used, sometimes it is worn in the wrong way. In this work, an autonomic face mask detection system with deep learning and powered by the image tracking technique used for the augmented reality development is proposed as a mechanism to request the correct use of face masks to grant access to people to critical areas. To achieve this, a machine learning model based on Convolutional Neural Networks was built on top of an IoT framework to enforce the correct use of the face mask in required areas as it is requested by law in some regions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Matthias ◽  
Chidozie Managwu ◽  
O. Olumide

The COVID–19 pandemic is, without any doubt, changing our world in ways that are beyond our wildest imagination. In a bid to curb the spiraling negative fallouts from the virus that has resulted in a large number of casualties and security concerns. The World Health Organization, amongst other safety protocols, recommended the compulsory wearing of face masks by individuals in public spaces. The problem with the enforcement of this and other relevant safety protocols, all over the world, is the reluctance and outright refusal of citizens to comply and the inability of relevant agencies to monitor and enforce compliance. This paper explores the development of a CCTV–enabled facial mask recognition software that will facilitate the monitoring and enforcement of this protocol. Such models can be particularly useful for security purposes in checking if the disease transmission is being kept in check. A constructive research methodology was adopted, where a pre-trained deep convolutionary neural network (CNN) (mostly eyes and forehead regions) used and the most probable limit (MPL) was use for the classification process. The designed method uses two datasets to train in order to detect key facial features and apply a decision-making algorithm. Experimental findings on the Real-World-Masked-Face-Dataset indicate high success in recognition. A proof of concept as well as a development base are provided towards reducing the spread of COVID-19 by allowing people to validate the face mask via their webcam. We recommend that the use of the app and to further investigate the development of highly robust detectors by training a deep learning model with respect to specified face-feature categories or to correctly and incorrectly wear mask categories.


Author(s):  
Yatharth Khansali

COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world severely, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has globally infected over 176 million people causing over 3.8 million deaths. Wearing a protective mask has become a norm. However, it is seen in most public places that people do not wear masks or don’t wear them properly. In this paper, we propose a high accuracy and efficient face mask detector based on MobileNet architecture. The proposed method detects the face in real-time with OpenCV and then identifies if it has a mask on it or not. As a surveillance task, it supports motion, and is trained using transfer learning and compared in terms of both precision and efficiency, with special attention to the real-time requirements of this context.


Author(s):  
Dr. Prakash Prasad ◽  
Mukul Shende ◽  
Mayur Karemore ◽  
Lucky Khobragade ◽  
Amit Dravyakar ◽  
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The new pandemic of (Coronavirus Disease-2019) COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide. Every potential sector is experiencing a decline in growth. (World Health Organization) WHO suggests that Wearing Face Mask can reduce the impact of COVID-19. So, This Paper Proposed a system that controls the growth of COVID-19 by finding individuals who don't wear masks in populated areas like malls, markets where all public places are under surveillance with closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV). When a person without a mask is found, the corresponding authority is informed by the CCTV network. And it can calculate the number of people that do not wear the mask and emit an audible signal to inform the authority. A deep learning module is trained on a dataset composed of images of people wearing different types of masks and people without masks collected from various sources. It also contains some confusing images that help the model to achieve greater precision than other models. This model will use the dataset to build a COVID-19 face mask detector with computer vision using Computer Vision. This approach allowed extracting even the details from the pixels


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Raina MacIntyre ◽  
S Jay Hasanain

As the COVID-19 pandemic grows globally, universal face mask use (UFMU) has become a topic of discussion, with a recommendation made from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for cloth mask use by community members. Other countries and the World Health Organization advise against UFMU. We outline the rationale and evidence supporting UFMU in households, during travel and in crowded public spaces in high transmission community settings.


Author(s):  
Radimas Putra Muhammad Davi Labib ◽  
Sirojul Hadi ◽  
Parama Diptya Widayaka

In December 2019, there was a pandemic caused by a new type of coronavirus, namely SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2) spread almost throughout the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) named it COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease). To minimize the spread of the COVID-19, the Indonesian government announced a policy for the social distancing of 1-2 meters and wearing a medical mask. In this study, a mask detection system was built using the Haar Cascade Classifier method by detecting the facial areas such as the nose and lips. The study aims to distinguish between using masks and on the contrary. It is expected that the mask detection system can be implemented to provide direct warnings to people who do not wear masks in public areas. The results using the Haar Cascade Classifier method show that the system designed is able to detect faces, noses, and lips at a light intensity of 80-140 lux. The face is detected at a distance of 30-120cm, while the nose is at a distance of 30-60cm, while the lips are at a distance of 30-70cm. The system designed can perform the detection process at a speed of 5 fps. The overall test results obtained a success rate of 88,89%.


Author(s):  
Prod. Roshan R. Kolte

Abstract: COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly affected our day-to-day life the world trade and movements. Wearing a face mask is very essentials for protecting against virus. People also wear mask to cover themselves in order to reduce the spread of covid virus. The corona virus covid-19 pandemic is causing a global health crisis so the effective protection method is wearing a face mask in public area according to the world health organization (WHO). The covid-19 pandemic forced government across the world to impose lockdowns to prevent virus transmission report indicates that wearing face mask while at work clearly reduce the risk of transmission .we will use the dataset to build a covid-19 face mask detector with computer vision using python,opencv,tensorflow,keras library and deep learning. Our goal is to identify whether the person on image or live video stream is wearing mask or not wearing face mask this can help to society and whole organization to avoid the transfer of virus one person to antother.we used computer vision and deep learning modules to detect a with mask image and without mask image. Keywords: face detection, face recognition, CNN, SVM, opencv, python, tensorflow, keras.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3495
Author(s):  
Shabir Hussain ◽  
Yang Yu ◽  
Muhammad Ayoub ◽  
Akmal Khan ◽  
Rukhshanda Rehman ◽  
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The spread of COVID-19 has been taken on pandemic magnitudes and has already spread over 200 countries in a few months. In this time of emergency of COVID-19, especially when there is still a need to follow the precautions and developed vaccines are not available to all the developing countries in the first phase of vaccine distribution, the virus is spreading rapidly through direct and indirect contacts. The World Health Organization (WHO) provides the standard recommendations on preventing the spread of COVID-19 and the importance of face masks for protection from the virus. The excessive use of manual disinfection systems has also become a source of infection. That is why this research aims to design and develop a low-cost, rapid, scalable, and effective virus spread control and screening system to minimize the chances and risk of spread of COVID-19. We proposed an IoT-based Smart Screening and Disinfection Walkthrough Gate (SSDWG) for all public places entrance. The SSDWG is designed to do rapid screening, including temperature measuring using a contact-free sensor and storing the record of the suspected individual for further control and monitoring. Our proposed IoT-based screening system also implemented real-time deep learning models for face mask detection and classification. This module classified individuals who wear the face mask properly, improperly, and without a face mask using VGG-16, MobileNetV2, Inception v3, ResNet-50, and CNN using a transfer learning approach. We achieved the highest accuracy of 99.81% while using VGG-16 and the second highest accuracy of 99.6% using MobileNetV2 in the mask detection and classification module. We also implemented classification to classify the types of face masks worn by the individuals, either N-95 or surgical masks. We also compared the results of our proposed system with state-of-the-art methods, and we highly suggested that our system could be used to prevent the spread of local transmission and reduce the chances of human carriers of COVID-19.


Author(s):  
Soo Ah Son ◽  
Se Hwan Hwang

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic originated in Wuhan, China and spread rapidly worldwide, leading the World Health Organization to declare an official global COVID- 19 pandemic in March 2020. The upper aero-digestive tract is known to be the highest viral load reside. The infection spreads via droplets or direct contact with contaminated surfaces via aeorsol. The otolaryngologists deal with diseases of the upper-aerodigestive tract and routinely are engaged in respiratory droplet and aerosol-generating procedures (AGP). In particular, because airborne transmission occurs during examination and AGP, otolaryngologists are considered to be at a high risk of contracting COVID-19 during this pandemic. Therefore otolaryngologists need to do precautions to protect staff and patients and minimize transmission of the disease. We also need to wear adequate personal protective equipment according to the examination and procedure. This article discusses the disease transmission and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 as well as precaution guidelines in outpatient clinics of otorhinolaryngology.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bapi Gorain ◽  
Hira Choudhury ◽  
Nagashekhara Molugulu ◽  
Rajani B. Athawale ◽  
Prashant Kesharwani

Sudden outbreak of a new pathogen in numbers of pneumonic patients in Wuhan province during December 2019 has threatened the world population within a short period of its occurrence. This respiratory tract–isolated pathogen was initially named as novel coronavirus 2019 (nCoV-2019), but later termed as SARS-CoV-2. The rapid spreading of this infectious disease received the label of pandemic by the World Health Organization within 4 months of its occurrence, which still seeks continuous attention of the researchers to prevent the spread and for cure of the infected patients. The propagation of the disease has been recorded in 215 countries, with more than 25.5 million cases and a death toll of more than 0.85 million. Several measures are taken to control the disease transmission, and researchers are actively engaged in finding suitable therapeutics to effectively control the disease to minimize the mortality and morbidity rates. Several existing potential candidates were explored in the prevention and treatment of worsening condition of COVID-19 patients; however, none of the formulation has been approved for the treatment but used under medical supervision. In this article, a focus has been made to highlight on current epidemiology on the COVID-19 infection, clinical features, diagnosis, and transmission, with special emphasis on treatment measures of the disease at different stages of clinical research and the global economic influence due to this pandemic situation. Progress in the development on vaccine against COVID-19 has also been explored as important measures to immunize people. Moreover, this article is expected to provide information to the researchers, who are constantly combating in the management against this outbreak.


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