Abstract
In a context of a virus that is transmissive by sputtering, wearing masks appear necessary to protect the wearer and to limit the propagation of the disease. Currently, we are facing the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease with first symptoms similar to the flu. The symptom of COVID-19 was reported first in China and very quickly spreads to the rest of the world. The COVID-19 contagiousness is known to be high by comparison with the flu. In this paper, we propose a design of a mobile application for permitting everyone having a smartphone and being able to take a picture to verify that his/her protection mask is correctly positioned on his/her face. Such application can be particularly useful for people using face protection mask for the first time and notably for children and old people. The designed method exploits Haar-like feature descriptors to detect key features of the face and a decision-making algorithm is applied. Experimental results show the potential of this method in the validation of the correct mask wearing. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the only one that currently proposes a mobile application design “CheckYourMask” for validating the correct wearing of protection mask.
Highlights
AND MOTIVATIONIn the context of transmitted virus between humans by sputtering, wearing the mask on the face appears necessary to protect people and to limit the propagation of the disease
The COVID-19 contagiousness is known to be high by comparison with the flu
We propose a design of a mobile application allowing people able to take a picture with a smartphone to verify that his/her protection mask is correctly positioned on his/her face
Summary
In the context of transmitted virus between humans by sputtering (spraying), wearing the mask on the face appears necessary to protect people and to limit the propagation of the disease. We propose a design of a mobile application allowing people able to take a picture with a smartphone to verify that his/her protection mask is correctly positioned on his/her face. These observations have led nurses and other citizens to initiate prevention campaigns related to the public health education in wearing the mask. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the only one that currently proposes a mobile application design “CheckYourMask” for validating the correct wearing of protection mask
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