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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

The task of detecting whether a person wears a face mask from speech is useful in modelling speech in forensic investigations, communication between surgeons or people protecting themselves against infectious diseases such as COVID-19. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Radu Tudor Ionescu

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a global health crisis. Public spaces need to be safeguarded from the adverse effects of this pandemic. Wearing a facemask becomes one of the effective protection solutions adopted by many governments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Wadii Boulila , Ayyub Alzahem , Aseel Almoudi , Muhanad Afifi , Ibrahim Alturki , Maha Driss

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

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

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

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

Masks are used as part of a comprehensive strategy of measures to limit transmission and save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research about the impact of mask-wearing in the COVID-19 pandemic has raised formidable interest across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yurun Tian , Anirudh Sridhar , Osman Yagan , H. Vincent Poor

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that affects millions of people worldwide. While this condition can be managed by administering controller medications through handheld inhalers, clinical studies have shown low adherence to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Davoud Shariat Panah , Alessandro N Franciosi , Cormac McCarthy , Andrew Hines

Wearing a mask is a strong protection against the COVID-19 pandemic, even though the vaccine has been successfully developed and is widely available. However, many people wear them incorrectly. This observation prompts us to devise an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yixin Hu , Xingyu Li

Washing hands is one of the most important ways to prevent infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Unfortunately, medical staff does not always follow the World Health Organization (WHO) hand washing guidelines in their everyday work. To…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Maksims Ivanovs , Roberts Kadikis , Martins Lulla , Aleksejs Rutkovskis , Atis Elsts

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread all over the world since it broke out massively in December 2019, which has caused a large loss to the whole world. Both the confirmed cases and death cases have reached a relatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yuzhen Chen , Menghan Hu , Chunjun Hua , Guangtao Zhai , Jian Zhang , Qingli Li , Simon X. Yang

In the recent times, the Coronaviruses that are a big family of different viruses have become very common, contagious and dangerous to the whole human kind. It spreads human to human by exhaling the infection breath, which leaves droplets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Riya Shah Rutva Shah

Contactless and efficient systems are implemented rapidly to advocate preventive methods in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the positive benefits of such systems, there is potential for exploitation by invading user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Sachith Seneviratne , Nuran Kasthuriarachchi , Sanka Rasnayaka , Danula Hettiachchi , Ridwan Shariffdeen

Over the last twenty years, there have seen several outbreaks of different coronavirus diseases across the world. These outbreaks often led to respiratory tract diseases and have proved to be fatal sometimes. Currently, we are facing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Bishwas Mandal , Adaeze Okeukwu , Yihong Theis

Cochlear implant (CI) users have considerable difficulty in understanding speech in reverberant listening environments. Time-frequency (T-F) masking is a common technique that aims to improve speech intelligibility by multiplying…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Kevin M. Chu , Leslie M. Collins , Boyla O. Mainsah

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an unparalleled crisis leading to a huge number of casualties and security problems. In order to reduce the spread of coronavirus, people often wear masks to protect themselves. This makes face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Walid Hariri

We propose a deep learning method to automatically detect personal protective equipment (PPE), such as helmets, surgical masks, reflective vests, boots and so on, in images of people. Typical approaches for PPE detection based on deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Adrian Sandru , Georgian-Emilian Duta , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Musculoskeletal injuries during military training significantly impact readiness, making prevention through activity monitoring crucial. While Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices offers promising solutions, it faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Barak Gahtan , Shany Funk , Einat Kodesh , Itay Ketko , Tsvi Kuflik , Alex M. Bronstein

In this study of the face recognition on masked versus unmasked faces generated using Flickr-Faces-HQ and SpeakingFaces datasets, we report 36.78% degradation of recognition performance caused by the mask-wearing at the time of pandemics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Leonardo Queiroz , Kenneth Lai , Svetlana Yanushkevich , Vlad Shmerko