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Social distancing has been the only effective way to contain the spread of an infectious disease prior to the availability of the pharmaceutical treatment. It can lower the infection rate of the disease at the economic cost. A pandemic…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-07 Kexin Chen , Chi Seng Pun , Hoi Ying Wong

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented global public health crisis. Given its inherent nature, social distancing measures are proposed as the primary strategies to curb the spread of this pandemic. Therefore, identifying…

With the relaxation of the containment measurements around the globe, monitoring the social distancing in crowded public places is of grate importance to prevent a new massive wave of COVID-19 infections. Recent works in that matter have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Javier A. González-Trejo , Diego A. Mercado-Ravell

One of the deadliest pandemics is now happening in the current world due to COVID-19. This contagious virus is spreading like wildfire around the whole world. To minimize the spreading of this virus, World Health Organization (WHO) has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Abdullah Al Asif , Farhana Chowdhury Tisha

With the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spreading across the world, protective measures for containing the virus are essential, especially as long as no vaccine or effective treatment is available. One important measure is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-09 Thomas Harweg , Daniel Bachmann , Frank Weichert

The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments across the world to impose lockdowns to prevent virus transmissions. This resulted in the shutdown of all economic activity and accordingly the production at manufacturing plants across most sectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Prateek Khandelwal , Anuj Khandelwal , Snigdha Agarwal , Deep Thomas , Naveen Xavier , Arun Raghuraman

Coronavirus disease 2019, i.e. COVID-19 has imposed the public health measure of keeping social distancing for preventing mass transmission of COVID-19. For monitoring the social distancing and keeping the trace of transmission, we are…

Social distancing, an essential public health measure to limit the spread of contagious diseases, has gained significant attention since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work, the problem of visual social distancing compliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhirui Dai , Yuepeng Jiang , Yi Li , Bo Liu , Antoni B. Chan , Nuno Vasconcelos

Perceiving humans in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) often relies on multiple cameras or expensive LiDAR sensors. In this work, we present a new cost-effective vision-based method that perceives humans' locations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Lorenzo Bertoni , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

The study aims the development of a wearable device to combat the onslaught of covid-19. Likewise, to enhance the regular face shield available in the market. Furthermore, to raise awareness of the health and safety protocols initiated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Manuel Luis C. Delos Santos , Ronaldo S. Tinio , Darwin B. Diaz , Karlene Emily I. Tolosa

Unobtrusive monitoring of distances between people indoors is a useful tool in the fight against pandemics. A natural resource to accomplish this are surveillance cameras. Unlike previous distance estimation methods, we use a single,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zhangchi Lu , Mertcan Cokbas , Prakash Ishwar , Jansuz Konrad

The recent pandemic emergency raised many challenges regarding the countermeasures aimed at containing the virus spread, and constraining the minimum distance between people resulted in one of the most effective strategies. Thus, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alessio Mingozzi , Andrea Conti , Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

COVID-19 has changed our world and has filled people with fear and anxiety. Everyone has a fear of coming in contact with people having the Coronavirus. In Spite of releasing full lockdowns, there is still a pressing need to maintain social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ruchita Bhadre , Prathamesh Yeole , Tejas Ranka , Rohini Mudhalwadkar

This paper introduces a compound vision system that enables robots to localize people up to 15m away using a cheap camera. And, it proposes a robust navigation stack that combines Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and a probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Serge Saaybi , Amjad Yousef Majid , R Venkatesha Prasad , Anis Koubaa , Chris Verhoeven

Social distancing in public spaces has become an essential aspect in helping to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploiting recent advances in machine learning, there have been many studies in the literature implementing social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Nik Khadijah Nik Aznan , John Brennan , Daniel Bell , Jennine Jonczyk , Paul Watson

Accident of struck-by machines is one of the leading causes of casualties on construction sites. Monitoring workers' proximities to avoid human-machine collisions has aroused great concern in construction safety management. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yuexiong Ding , Xiaowei Luo

Crowd density level estimation is an essential aspect of crowd safety since it helps to identify areas of probable overcrowding and required conditions. Nowadays, AI systems can help in various sectors. Here for safety purposes or many for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mahira Arefin , Md. Anwar Hussen Wadud , Anichur Rahman

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory disease that was first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and has since spread around the globe, claiming more than 69,000 lives by the time this protocol…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-08 Bo Zhang , Ting Ye , Siyu Heng , Michael Z. Levy , Dylan S. Small

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems stand out as potent aids for physicians in identifying the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) through medical imaging modalities. In this paper, we showcase the integration and reliable and fast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Demetris Gerogiannis , Anastasios Arsenos , Dimitrios Kollias , Dimitris Nikitopoulos , Stefanos Kollias

Currently there are many attempts around the world to use computers, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. Most of these attempts focus on collecting information about infected people, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Alexandru Popa