Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

After different consecutive waves, the pandemic phase of Coronavirus disease 2019 does not look to be ending soon for most countries across the world. To slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, several measures have been adopted since the start of the outbreak, including wearing face masks and mainta...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yassine Himeur, Somaya Al-Maadeed, Iraklis Varlamis, Noor Al-Maadeed, Khalid Abualsaud, Amr Mohamed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Systems
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/2/107
_version_ 1797617970589990912
author Yassine Himeur
Somaya Al-Maadeed
Iraklis Varlamis
Noor Al-Maadeed
Khalid Abualsaud
Amr Mohamed
author_facet Yassine Himeur
Somaya Al-Maadeed
Iraklis Varlamis
Noor Al-Maadeed
Khalid Abualsaud
Amr Mohamed
author_sort Yassine Himeur
collection DOAJ
description After different consecutive waves, the pandemic phase of Coronavirus disease 2019 does not look to be ending soon for most countries across the world. To slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, several measures have been adopted since the start of the outbreak, including wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing. Ensuring safety in public areas of smart cities requires modern technologies, such as deep learning and deep transfer learning, and computer vision for automatic face mask detection and accurate control of whether people wear masks correctly. This paper reviews the progress in face mask detection research, emphasizing deep learning and deep transfer learning techniques. Existing face mask detection datasets are first described and discussed before presenting recent advances to all the related processing stages using a well-defined taxonomy, the nature of object detectors and Convolutional Neural Network architectures employed and their complexity, and the different deep learning techniques that have been applied so far. Moving on, benchmarking results are summarized, and discussions regarding the limitations of datasets and methodologies are provided. Last but not least, future research directions are discussed in detail.
first_indexed 2024-03-11T08:03:32Z
format Article
id doaj.art-1b969e7bdb914888848d3980c5a14ed1
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2079-8954
language English
last_indexed 2024-03-11T08:03:32Z
publishDate 2023-02-01
publisher MDPI AG
record_format Article
series Systems
spelling doaj.art-1b969e7bdb914888848d3980c5a14ed12023-11-16T23:35:48ZengMDPI AGSystems2079-89542023-02-0111210710.3390/systems11020107Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 PandemicYassine Himeur0Somaya Al-Maadeed1Iraklis Varlamis2Noor Al-Maadeed3Khalid Abualsaud4Amr Mohamed5Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, QatarDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, QatarDepartment of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Omirou 9, Tavros, 17778 Athens, GreeceDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, QatarDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, QatarDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, Doha P.O. Box 2713, QatarAfter different consecutive waves, the pandemic phase of Coronavirus disease 2019 does not look to be ending soon for most countries across the world. To slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, several measures have been adopted since the start of the outbreak, including wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing. Ensuring safety in public areas of smart cities requires modern technologies, such as deep learning and deep transfer learning, and computer vision for automatic face mask detection and accurate control of whether people wear masks correctly. This paper reviews the progress in face mask detection research, emphasizing deep learning and deep transfer learning techniques. Existing face mask detection datasets are first described and discussed before presenting recent advances to all the related processing stages using a well-defined taxonomy, the nature of object detectors and Convolutional Neural Network architectures employed and their complexity, and the different deep learning techniques that have been applied so far. Moving on, benchmarking results are summarized, and discussions regarding the limitations of datasets and methodologies are provided. Last but not least, future research directions are discussed in detail.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/2/107face mask detectiondeep learningdeep transfer learningdeep domain adaptationYOLOMobileNet
spellingShingle Yassine Himeur
Somaya Al-Maadeed
Iraklis Varlamis
Noor Al-Maadeed
Khalid Abualsaud
Amr Mohamed
Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Systems
face mask detection
deep learning
deep transfer learning
deep domain adaptation
YOLO
MobileNet
title Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Face Mask Detection in Smart Cities Using Deep and Transfer Learning: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort face mask detection in smart cities using deep and transfer learning lessons learned from the covid 19 pandemic
topic face mask detection
deep learning
deep transfer learning
deep domain adaptation
YOLO
MobileNet
url https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/2/107
work_keys_str_mv AT yassinehimeur facemaskdetectioninsmartcitiesusingdeepandtransferlearninglessonslearnedfromthecovid19pandemic
AT somayaalmaadeed facemaskdetectioninsmartcitiesusingdeepandtransferlearninglessonslearnedfromthecovid19pandemic
AT iraklisvarlamis facemaskdetectioninsmartcitiesusingdeepandtransferlearninglessonslearnedfromthecovid19pandemic
AT nooralmaadeed facemaskdetectioninsmartcitiesusingdeepandtransferlearninglessonslearnedfromthecovid19pandemic
AT khalidabualsaud facemaskdetectioninsmartcitiesusingdeepandtransferlearninglessonslearnedfromthecovid19pandemic
AT amrmohamed facemaskdetectioninsmartcitiesusingdeepandtransferlearninglessonslearnedfromthecovid19pandemic