Smart Surveillance for COVID-19 Health Protocol Compliance in Vehicles

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, the Corona Virus outbreak in 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic. The public must implement health protocols to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Trends show that the number of COVID-19 is increasing over time. This study proposes and develops a smart model to detect COVID-19 Health protocol violators in vehicles. This model can detect violations of the use of masks and social distancing in vehicles. The proposed model is a combination of the YOLO object detection method and the Hourglass architecture. The experimental results of the proposed model can detect violations with a high success rate. Here, the standard YOLOv4 detection model as baseline yields an mAP of 0.87 for validation and 0.74 for test data. On the other hand, the proposed method produces an mAP of 0.92 on the validation data, 0.78 on the test data. From these results, this smart model is quite promising to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. © 2021 ACM.