COVID-19 SOP’s Violations Detection in Terms of Face Mask Using Deep Learning

Facemask detection is a need of time as we are suffering in a pandemic situation of COVID-19, and facemask is considered the best preventive measure to stop the rapid spread. The vast majority of the world population is still unvaccinated, especially young and kids. Moreover, despite the vaccination, people are still getting Covid positive, and the majority are due to the Delta variant. So, we still need to have strict SOP implementation. The best way is to have some autonomous system to monitor SOP compliance and alert the authority to take countermeasures. Many people wear the mask, but the mask is usually on the chin and does not serve the purpose because the facemask must cover the mouth and nose to stop the spread. This study has proposed the improved version of the YOLOv4 model for the robust detection of face masks and checks whether the mask is worn in the recommended way. 2D convolutions of Yolov4 are replaced with the spatially separable convolutional in YOLOv4 to reduce the parameters so that the model can work in real-time. We have achieved an accuracy of 86.61% in terms of proper mask-wearing. Unlike other proposed approaches, our model is not only detecting the mask but also determines that whether the mask is worn in the recommended manner.Data Availability: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M0Bw1vxJhqx0KtiX5hKAAojZHkx0PbCS?usp=sharing