The world is fighting with Covid19 pandemic. There are so many essential equipments needed to fight against Corona virus. One of such most essential is Face Mask. Firstly face mask was not mandatory for everyone but as the day progresses scientist and Doctors have recommended everyone to wear face mask. Now To detect whether a person is wearing Face Mask or not, we will use Face Mask Detection Technique. Face Mask Detection Platform utilizes Artificial Network to perceive if a person does/doesn’t wear a mask. The application can be associated with any current or new IP cameras to identify individuals with/without a mask. In this blog we will see many important aspect of face mask detection not only for Covid19 cases but also for other regular cases. Types of Face Masks available: Basically there are two types of face masks are being used as Corona virus Protecting Gear.

1. N-95 Masks
2. General Surgical Masks

To stop the airborne particles (Corona Virus) from the infected person’s sneezing or coughing Face Masks are very much needed. It is applicable for everyone who is Covid19 positive, Covid19 negative, Doctors, Nurse and all other health staffs along with their PPE kit. Applications of Face Mask Detection There are several applications of face mask detection. Which includes the applications which are specific to covid19 and others are not related to covid19. So let us take a look at all the applications of Face Mask Detection.

1. Hospitals

Utilizing Face Mask Detection System, Hospitals can screen if their workers are wearing masks during their work day or not. In the event that any health worker is found without a mask, they will get a warning with a suggestion to wear a face mask. Likewise, if quarantine individuals who must wear a mask, the system can keep an eye and distinguish if the mask is available or not and send warning automatically or report to the authorities.

2. Airports

The Face Mask Detection System can be utilized at airports to recognize tourists/individual without veils. Face information of tourists can be caught in the system at the passageway. On the off chance that a tourist is seen as without a face cover, their image is sent to the airport authorities so they could make fast move. If the individual’s face is stored in the database, for example the face of any worker of an airport, an alert can be sent to the person’s phone directly.

3. Offices

The Face Mask Detection System can be utilized at office area to recognize if employees are keeping up safety standards at work. It screens employees without masks and sends them a suggestion to wear a cover. The reports can be downloaded or sent an email toward the day’s end to catch individuals who are not consenting to the guidelines or the prerequisites.

4. Educational Institutes

In educational institutes especially where the number of children is more, it is highly recommended to wear face mask for children. Now sometimes children throw away the masks and that’s very dangerous for them as it may tends to viral infection. So if we can use face mask detection in classrooms it will yield a great result. So via this blog we have seen the different types of application of Face Mask Detection technique. Hope this will help us to understand the importance of wearing masks. We wish you all a good health and hope we will be able to a corona-free world sooner. So to summarize, Face Mask Detection is going to be the leading technology in both retail and corporate sectors as well. In this scenario of Covid19, a low investment Face Mask Detection it is here to stay for a long time. Also for Bank, Educational institute or for any other commercial, industrial or retail application of Face Mask Detection or any computer vision, do not hesitate to contact us. This project was inspired from Adrian’s Pyimagesearch blog.