ABSTRACT
Nowadays, every individual is familiar with the COVID-19 pandemic which has caused great turmoil in everyone's life. Also, they are aware that there is no medicine or drug to cure COVID immediately, and people are at the risk of losing their lives. Lack of vaccines or delay in vaccine production for mass results social distancing being the only measure to tackle this pandemic. As a result, social distancing has proven to be a very reliable and efficient way to diminish the growth of this disease;the reason why lockdowns are imposed, and people are asked to keep some distance from each other, for their safety as there will be minimal physical contact. Machine learning and artificial intelligence come into the picture in every solution to a generic problem the community faces nowadays like in medical, supply chain management, face detection, etc. Using the power of AI algorithms, the paper aims to develop a robust system to monitor and analyze social distance measurement protocols at public places during the COVID-19 pandemic with the help of CCTV feed and check whether they abide by the safety protocols or not by measuring the distance between them. The proposed approach is implemented to enumerate the number of violations at a popular public place to prevent massive crowds at particular periods. The proposed method is suitable to construct a scrutiny system at a public place to alert people and eschew mass gatherings that can be concluded using achieved results. The paper also has an analysis of the performance of different models of R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, and YOLO. YOLO architectures are validated based on object detection and object tracking rate in real time. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.