scholarly journals Covid-19 Mask Detection

The corona epidemic poses a global health problem and therefore effective preventive measures are worn in public places,according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 epidemic has forced governments around the world to impose restrictions on the transmission of the virus. Reports show that wearing the right face while in public places and at work clearly reduces the risk of transmission. An effective and economical way to use machine learning is to create a safe environment for device setup. A hybrid model using the depth of the face mask detection machine will be introduced. The face mask detection databasecontains a mask and in addition to the facial images, we will use OpenCV to perform real-time facial detection from live streaming via our webcam. We will use the database to create a COVID-19 face mask detector from a computer view using Python, OpenCV, and Tensor Flow and Cameras. We aim to determine whether the person in the picture/video is wearing a face mask or not with the help of computer vision and in-depth reading and to show the same with caution. Steps to modeling are data collection, pre-processing, data classification, model testing, and modeling

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6900
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Talahua ◽  
Jorge Buele ◽  
P. Calvopiña ◽  
José Varela-Aldás

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the use of a face mask as a mandatory biosafety measure. This has caused problems in current facial recognition systems, motivating the development of this research. This manuscript describes the development of a system for recognizing people, even when they are using a face mask, from photographs. A classification model based on the MobileNetV2 architecture and the OpenCv’s face detector is used. Thus, using these stages, it can be identified where the face is and it can be determined whether or not it is wearing a face mask. The FaceNet model is used as a feature extractor and a feedforward multilayer perceptron to perform facial recognition. For training the facial recognition models, a set of observations made up of 13,359 images is generated; 52.9% images with a face mask and 47.1% images without a face mask. The experimental results show that there is an accuracy of 99.65% in determining whether a person is wearing a mask or not. An accuracy of 99.52% is achieved in the facial recognition of 10 people with masks, while for facial recognition without masks, an accuracy of 99.96% is obtained.


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.


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.


Author(s):  
R Dhaya

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers the COVID-19 Coronavirus to be a global pandemic. The most effective form of protection is to wear a face mask in public places. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted all the countries to set up a lockdown to prevent viral transmission. According to a survey study, the use of facemasks at work decreases the chances of fast transmission. If the facemasks are not used or are worn incorrectly, it contributes to the third and fourth waves of the corona virus spreading throughout the world. This motivates us to conduct an efficient investigation of the face mask identification system and monitor people, who use suitable face mask in public places. Deep learning is the most effective approach for detecting whether or not a person is wearing a face mask in a crowded area. Using a multiclass deep learning technique, this research study proposes an efficient two stage identification (ETSI) for face mask detection. Whereas, the binary classification does not offer information about face mask detection and error. The proposed approach employs CNN's "ReLU" activation function to detect the face mask. Furthermore, in the current pandemic crisis, this research article offers a very efficient and precise approach for identifying COVID-19. Precision has increased as a result of the employment of a multi-class abbreviation in the final output.


Author(s):  
Kavita R. Singh ◽  
Shailesh D. Kamble ◽  
Samiksha M. Kalbande ◽  
Punit Fulzele

The World Health Organization claims (WHO),Corona Viruses the COVID-19 pandemic is causing a nationwide crisis, wearing a mask on a face in public places is an effective protection measure. The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments all over the world to implement quarantine measures in order to deter virus spread. Reports suggest that the risk of transmission is clearly minimized by wearing face masks when at work. An effective and economic approach to the use of AI in a manufacturing setting to build a secure environment. Using a face mask detection dataset, we will use Open CV to perform real-time face detection from a live stream from our webcam. Using Keras, Python, Tensorflow and Open CV, and, it will build a COVID-19 face mask detector with computer vision. Using computer vision and CNN, I aim to decide whether or not the person in the image or video streaming is wear a mask.


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%.


Tibuana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (01) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Marcy L Pattiapon

The world has been shocked by the emergence of COVID-19 since December 2019 which is an acute respiratory disease caused by a corona virus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or abbreviated as SARSCoV-2 (Gorbalenya et al., 2020). As of June 17, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted that there were 8,061,550 people infected with COVID-19 and 440,290 people died (WHO, 2020a). Even though the Case Fatality Rate (CFR)  of  COVID-19  is  only around  5.46%, this disease is very dangerous because of its spread so fast it has infected 216 countries (Worldometer, 2020). To prevent uncontrolled spread, WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020 (WHO, 2020b) to increase awareness of this disease. The status of this pandemic is a concern for the world to make various   efforts   to   prevent   the   spread   of COVID-19. One way to protect yourself from spreading COVID-19 is to use Personal Protective Equipment. Face shield is a personal protective device that functions to protect the face from exposure to dangerous substances in the case of the spread of the Covid-19 virus. A good face shield is a face shield that has a high level of durability, has high material quality, has a sufficient level of elasticity, and the costs incurred are not too expensive.In choosing the best alternative in making a decision, the right method is needed so that the best alternative is obtained from various predetermined criteria.Then the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method is used to select the best alternative material to be used in making the Face Shield. Based on the results of the research conducted, it can be seen that each alternative has the advantage of the criteria felt by the respondent.However,  of  the  four  criteria  for   selecting the face shield material, the most superior  or  chosen  as  the  choice  is mica.Judging from the percentage of mica against the Durability criteria is 31.7%, the percentage of mica against the quality criteria is 43.1%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3495
Author(s):  
Shabir Hussain ◽  
Yang Yu ◽  
Muhammad Ayoub ◽  
Akmal Khan ◽  
Rukhshanda Rehman ◽  
...  

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):  
José Jorge Gutiérrez-Samperio

<p>Pests, in their broad sense, have played an important part in the history of humankind. We could say that humans, crops and pests have walked together through life. Codices, glyphs, paintings and countless ancient documents, including the Bible and the Koran, bear witness to this. Humanity has been attacked by its own diseases, but also by those that limit them from obtaining food and deteriorate the environment. COVID-19, which is now troubling us and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March of 2020, became a part of the list of experiences we have suffered in the past, with pests or epidemics that caused millions of deaths by diseases or famines. It is paradoxical that this health contingency occurs when the United Nations General Assembly, on December 20th, 2018, in its resolution A/RES/73/252 decides to declare 2020 the International Year of Plant Health in order to “highlight the importance of plant health to improve food security, protect the environment and biodiversity and boost economic development” according to the pronouncement by the FAO. For the first time, in an era with great technological and scientific breakthroughs, humanity was aware of its vulnerability against the inevitable evolution of life forms in the face of dilemmas global impact caused by human beings. Thus, the pest or parasite makes its own declaration of existential preeminence through SARS-CoV-2 to remind us that the health of humans or plants is the essence of life and its continuity. But perhaps absolute health is not enough. It is necessary to find a balance in a world overwhelmed by giving so much in return for almost nothing to everyone living on it. If the sensor of our anthropocentric intervention of the world is climate change, then biological chaos is a masterpiece. The reemergence of pests and diseases considered eradicated, or those of zoonotic origin that had never accompanied our existence is a surreal dystopia that we will never be able to deny again.</p>


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