Real Time Face Mask Detection using Google Cloud ML and Flutter

Abstract

Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has impacted the whole world and has forced health emergencies internationally. The contact of this pandemic has been fallen over almost all the development sectors. A lot of precautionary measures have been taken to control the Covid-19 spread, where wearing a face mask is an essential precaution. Wearing a face mask correctly has been essential in controlling the Covid-19 transmission. Moreover, this research aims to detect the face mask with fine-grained wearing states: face with the correct mask and face without mask. Our work has two challenging tasks due to two main reasons firstly the presence of augmented data set available in the online market and the training of large datasets. This paper represents a mobile application for face mask detection. The fully automated Machine Learning Cloud service known as Google Cloud ML API is used for training the model in TensorFlow file format. This paper highlights the efficiency of the ML model. Additionally, this paper examines the advancement of the cloud technology used for machine learning over the traditional coding methods.