Designing a Model to Monitor the Commitment of
People to Wear a Face Mask, Even if an Image of their
Real Face is Printed on it, using Deep Learning
Ansam Ghanom
1
and Dr. Mohamad-Bassam Kurdy
2
1
Department of Web Sciences, Syrian Virtual University, Damascus, Syria
Email: ansam_97187@svuonline.org
2
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Syrian Virtual University, Damascus, Syria
ORCID: 0000-0002-3596-3320
Abstract—The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has rapidly affected our daily lives, which led to
stopping the wheel of life for millions of people around the world and disrupting trade and
global movements.
The most important measure to limit the spread of this virus is to wear a mask on the face, so
this procedure has become a new normal. In the near future, many public service providers will
require customers to wear masks properly to benefit from their services. Therefore, the
discovery of the face mask has become a critical task to help the global and local community.
In this paper, we propose a method using deep learning techniques and models that detects the
faces of several people in a image or video stream in real-time and then identifies the faces of
people who wear a mask and people who do not wear a mask, it also discovers people who put a
mask in the wrong way, that is, the mask is under the chin or covers the mouth and chin only,
and the nose appears, and here it means its absence, and also discovers people who wear a mask
with the real features of their faces hidden behind the mask, that is, they put a mask but appear
as if they are not wearing a mask.
Index Terms—Covid-19, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Deep Learning, data
augmentation, Transfer Learning, CNN(Convolution Neural Network), Back Propagation,
Adam Optimizer, Face Detection and Face Mask Detection.
I. INTRODUCTION
Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) is a highly contagious epidemic disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 and has since
spread globally, common symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath, and COVID-19 infection can
mostly be transmitted through respiratory droplets generated when people breathe, talk, cough, or sneeze. The
World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 became a pandemic on March 12, 2020, and since
that time this epidemic has become a major threat to the life of the entire world, which has infected millions of
people around the world and led to the death of many of them, and thus the world is facing a huge health crisis
due to the rapid transmission of the virus. Therefore, a comprehensive ban was imposed on countries around the
world to mitigate this spread, and this affected the local and global economy and led to a halt in the wheel of life,
which made researchers work around the clock to find solutions and design strategies to control the epidemic and
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