Face Mask Detection System using CNN

Amid current pandemic, Covid-19 has made us realize the importance of Face Masks and we need to understand the crucial effects of not wearing one, now more than ever. Right now, there are no face mask detectors installed at the crowded places. But we believe that it is of utmost importance that at transportation junctions, densely populated residential area, markets, educational institutions and healthcare areas, it is now very important to set up face mask detectors to ensure the safety of the public. In this paper we have tried to build a two phased face mask detector which will be easy to deploy at the mentioned outlets. With the help of Computer Vision, it is now possible to detect and implement this on large scale. We have used CNN/ MobileNet V2 architecture for the implementation of our model. The implementation is done in Python, and the python script implementation will train our face mask detector on our selected dataset using TensorFlow and Keras. We have added more robust features and trained our model on various variations, we made sure to have large varied and augmented dataset so that the model is able to clearly identify and detection the face masks in real time videos. The trained model was tested on both real-time videos and static pictures and in both the cases the accuracy was more than the other designed models.