Real-Time Monitoring of COVID-19 SOP in Public Gathering Using Deep Learning Technique

COVID-19 Social Distancing Crowd Management Hajj Umrah Mask Detection Convolutional Neural Network.

Authors

  • Muhammad Haris Kaka Khel Electrical Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute, 53100,, Malaysia
  • Kushsairy Kadir
    kushsairy@unikl.edu.my
    Electrical Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute, 53100,, Malaysia
  • Waleed Albattah Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah,, Saudi Arabia
  • Sheroz Khan Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Information Technology, Onaizah Colleges, Qassim,, Saudi Arabia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5749-8538
  • MNMM Noor Computer Engineering Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Information Technology, Kuala Lumpur, 50250,, Malaysia
  • Haidawati Nasir Computer Engineering Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Information Technology, Kuala Lumpur, 50250,, Malaysia
  • Shabana Habib Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah,, Saudi Arabia
  • Muhammad Islam Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Information Technology, Onaizah Colleges, Qassim,, Saudi Arabia
  • Akbar Khan Electrical Section, Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute, 53100,, Malaysia
Vol. 5 (2021): Special Issue "COVID-19: Emerging Research"
Special Issue "COVID-19: Emerging Research"

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Crowd management has attracted serious attention under the prevailing pandemic conditions of COVID-19, emphasizing that sick persons do not become a source of virus transmission. World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines include maintaining a safe distance and wearing a mask in gatherings as part of standard operating procedures (SOP), considered thus far the most effective preventive measures to protect against COVID-19. Several methods and strategies have been used to construct various face detection and social distance detection models. In this paper, a deep learning model is presented to detect people without masks and those not keeping a safe distance to contain the virus. It also counts individuals who violate the SOP. The proposed model employs the Single Shot Multi-box Detector as a feature extractor, followed by Spatial Pyramid Pooling (SPP) to integrate the extracted features to improve the model's detecting capabilities. The MobilenetV2 architecture as a framework for the classifier makes the model highly light, fast, and computationally efficient, allowing it to be employed in embedded devices to do real-time mask and social distance detection, which is the sole objective of this research. This paper's technique yields an accuracy score of 99% and reduces the loss to 0.04%.

 

Doi: 10.28991/esj-2021-SPER-14

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