Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Internet of Things (IoT) are three of the fastest growing subjects in Computer Science. Computer Vision is a general term of using computer program to process image data. Deep Learning algorithms, especially Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide solutions for many computer vision problems such as object detection, image classification and face recognition. Internet of Things is characterized by small electronic cards such as Raspberry Pi mini-computer equipped with camera and deployed in many fields in order to link real environment to Internet cyberspace. All these concepts are used in this project in order to build a practical, real-world computer vision application for COVID-19 face mask detection. Based on Deep Learning Image classification, this application detects if a pilgrim is wearing a face mask or not. The system automatically detects two kind of persons: with mask and without mask from a video stream tracked by PiCamera. PiCamera is a camera especially designed for Raspberry Pi and plugged into it. A detailed description of this project is presented along this paper.