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Estimating the mask-wearing ratio in public places is important as it enables health authorities to promptly analyze and implement policies. Methods for estimating the mask-wearing ratio on the basis of image analysis have been reported.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Khanh-Duy Nguyen , Huy H. Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

With the surge of inexpensive computational and memory resources, neural networks (NNs) have experienced an unprecedented growth in architectural and computational complexity. Introducing NNs to resource-constrained devices enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Lennart Heim , Andreas Biri , Zhongnan Qu , Lothar Thiele

Recent works on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for facial alignment have demonstrated unprecedented accuracy on a variety of large, publicly available datasets. However, the developed models are often both cumbersome and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 TianXing Li , Zhi Yu , Edmund Phung , Brendan Duke , Irina Kezele , Parham Aarabi

The small receptive field and capacity of minimal neural networks limit their performance when using them to be the backbone of detectors. In this work, we find that the appearance feature of a generic face is discriminative enough for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Yuhang Zang , Xiaogang Wang , Biao Leng , Qingsheng Yuan

Detecting faces and heads appearing in video feeds are challenging tasks in real-world video surveillance applications due to variations in appearance, occlusions and complex backgrounds. Recently, several CNN architectures have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Eric Granger , Madhu Kiran , Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a serious global epidemic in the past few months and caused huge loss to human society worldwide. For such a large-scale epidemic, early detection and isolation of potential virus carriers is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Zheng Jiang , Menghan Hu , Lei Fan , Yaling Pan , Wei Tang , Guangtao Zhai , Yong Lu

Modern face recognition systems (FRS) still fall short when the subjects are wearing facial masks, a common theme in the age of respiratory pandemics. An intuitive partial remedy is to add a mask detector to flag any masked faces so that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jiayi Zhu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yihao Huang , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

Recently, the domestic COVID-19 epidemic situation is serious, but in public places, some people do not wear masks or wear masks incorrectly, which requires the relevant staff to instantly remind and supervise them to wear masks correctly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xuecheng Wu , Mengmeng Tian , Lanhang Zhai

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spread so quickly around the world that many countries had to set mandatory face mask rules in public areas to reduce the transmission of the virus. To monitor public adherence, researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alperen Kantarcı , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

We propose a novel image dataset focused on tiny faces wearing face masks for mask classification purposes, dubbed Small Face MASK (SF-MASK), composed of a collection made from 20k low-resolution images exported from diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Federico Cunico , Andrea Toaiari , Marco Cristani

As Covid-19 has been constantly getting mutated and in three or four months a new variant gets introduced to us and it comes with more deadly problems. The things that prevent us from getting Covid is getting vaccinated and wearing a face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Abdullah Ahmad Khan , Mohd. Belal , GhufranUllah

Wearing a mask has proven to be one of the most effective ways to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. However, wearing a mask poses challenges for different face recognition tasks and raises concerns about the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Being accurate, efficient, and compact is essential to a facial landmark detector for practical use. To simultaneously consider the three concerns, this paper investigates a neat model with promising detection accuracy under wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xiaojie Guo , Siyuan Li , Jinke Yu , Jiawan Zhang , Jiayi Ma , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Haibin Ling

Remote monitoring of vital signs in infectious patients minimizes the risks of viral transmissions to healthcare professionals. Evidence indicates that donning face masks reduces the risk of viral transmissions and is now the norm in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Vivian Ci Ai Koh , Yi Yang Ang , Wee Ser , Rex Xiao Tan

Coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged towards the end of 2019. World Health Organization (WHO) was identified it as a global epidemic. Consensus occurred in the opinion that using Computerized Tomography (CT) techniques for early diagnosis of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Umut Ozkaya , Saban Ozturk , Mucahid Barstugan

With the recent world-wide COVID-19 pandemic, using face masks have become an important part of our lives. People are encouraged to cover their faces when in public area to avoid the spread of infection. The use of these face masks has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Aqeel Anwar , Arijit Raychowdhury

Face detection is a widely studied problem over the past few decades. Recently, significant improvements have been achieved via the deep neural network, however, it is still challenging to directly apply these techniques to mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Heming Zhang , Xiaolong Wang , Jingwen Zhu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

The use of facial masks in public spaces has become a social obligation since the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the identification of facial masks can be imperative to ensure public safety. Detection of facial masks in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Aniruddha Srinivas Joshi , Shreyas Srinivas Joshi , Goutham Kanahasabai , Rudraksh Kapil , Savyasachi Gupta

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

The problem of faces detection in images or video streams is a classical problem of computer vision. The multiple solutions of this problem have been proposed, but the question of their optimality is still open. Many algorithms achieve a…

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