Comparative Study Between MobilNet Face-Mask Detector and YOLOv3 Face-Mask Detector

ABSTRACT

During this Covid-19, face masks are used to avoid cross-contamination as part of an infection protection strategy. Wearing a face mask can help avoid infection by preventing individuals from coming into contact with pathogens. When someone coughs, speaks, or sneezes, there is a chance that the infection will spread into the air and affect those nearby. So to prevent the rate of spreading, face masks are highly mandatory. Tracking every individual manually is an expensive task;therefore, we save a lot of time, cost and effort by automating this process. This proposed automation can be done using Artificial Neural Networks. YOLOv3 and MobileNetv2 are popular architectures used in different object detection applications. Hence, paper compares the above architectures by their performance, accuracy from outputs of both under different scenarios. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.