Face Mask Detection Using Lightweight Deep Learning Architecture and Raspberry Pi Hardware: An Approach to Reduce Risk of Coronavirus Spread While Entrance to Indoor Spaces

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the world at full speed, threatening public health. In response, the World Health Organization recommends various preventive measures to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Wearing a mask is one of the preventive measures to reduce the contagion of the disease, and many governments around the world advise people to wear masks. One of the prominent symptoms of coronavirus is high fever. A person with a fever above normal is likely to have contracted the corona virus. This requires the identification of people with a high fever in order to prevent the epidemic in the public arena. This situation has caused people who want to enter public places to need masks and officers who control their body temperature. The aim of this study is to detect people who do not wear masks or do not wear them properly, and also to detect people with high fever through a system. The proposed system is designed as a system that can be integrated into automatic door systems. The system was basically implemented by running Mobile Net, one of the deep learning models, on the Raspberry Pi card. In the proposed method, 97.0% accuracy was obtained. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively recognize face masks and whether people have a high fever. This work is necessary for many closed areas that will make masks and fever control in public areas.