FACE MASK DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly affected ourday-to-day life disrupting the world trade and movements. Wearing a protective face mask hasbecome a new normal. In the near future, many public service providers will ask the customers to wear masks correctly to avail of their services. Therefore, face maskdetection has become a crucial task to help global society. This paper presents a simplified approach to achieve this purpose using some basic Machine Learning packages like TensorFlow, Keras and OpenCV. The application of ―machine learning‖ and ―artificial intelligence‖ has become popular within the last decade. Both terms are frequently used in science and media, sometimes interchangeably, sometimes with different meanings. In this work, we specify the contribution of machine learning to artificial intelligence. We review relevant literature and present a conceptual framework which clarifies the role of machine learning to build (artificial) intelligent agents.The proposed method detects the face from the image correctly and then identifies if it has a mask on it or not. As a surveillance task performer, it can also detect a face along with a mask in motion. The method attains accuracy up to 95.77% and 94.58% respectively on two different datasets. We explore optimized values of parameters using the mobileNetV2 which is a Convolutional Neural Network architecture to detect the presence of masks correctly without causing overfitting.