Face Mask Detector with Machine Learning Algorithms

The corona virus COVID19 pandemic is causing a alarming crisis so the effective ways of protection methods is by wearing a face mask in public according to the World Health Organization(WHO).The COVID-19 pandemic have governments across globe to impose lockdowns to prevent virus transmissions. Reports indicate that wearing face masks while at work clearly reduces the risk of transmission. An efficient and economic approach of using AI to create a safe environment in a manufacturing setup. A model using deep and classical machine learning for face mask detection will be presented. A face mask detection dataset consists of with mask and without mask images, we are going to use python-OpenCV to do real- time face detection from a live stream via our webcam. We will use the data set to build a COVID-19 face mask detector with computer vision using Python, OpenCV, TensorFlow and Keras. Our goal is to identify whether the person on image/video stream is wearing a facemask or not with the help of computer vision and deep learning.