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How Can Machine Learning Help the Authorities?
Summary
This paper describes a machine learning system for automatically detecting whether people are wearing face masks, developed to support COVID-19 prevention efforts. This computer vision research is not directly related to microplastic contamination.
Corona Virus Desease (COVID-19) pandemic is causing health crisis in every region in the world, especially in Indonesia. One of the effective methods against the virus is wearing face mask in public place as the regulation made by the authorities. This paper introduces face mask detection that can be used by the authorities to make mitigation, evaluation, prevention, and action planning against COVID-19. On the other hand, this solution can be used as communication tool to evaluate people’s habit on wearing face mask. The face mask recognition in this study is developed with machine learning algorithm through the image classification method: MobileNetv2. The proposed model can be integrated with surveillance camera to impede the Covid-19 transmission by allowing the detection of people who are not wearing face mask. After the training, validation, and testing phase, the model can provide the percentage of people using face mask in some cities with high accuracy. The data produced also have a strong correlation to the vigilance index of COVID-19.
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