A Deep learning based approach for Social Distance Monitoring

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world at large claiming large number of lives till date leaving us with no solution except maintaining social distancing or washing hands regularly, wearing masks and staying at homes. Social distancing is one of the key aspects to prevent spreading of this virus. It means more of maintaining suitable distance between each other. Artificial intelligence has been used widely for a large number of purposes and as such is one of the key tools used here for implementing this project. The proposed system identifies people who are not suitable distance apart by using object detection and calculating the Euclidian distance between two people. This system would be beneficial to the authorities for alerting people if the situation is serious.