Covid19 Social Distancing Tracker

Abstract: COVID-19 has brought global crisis with its deadly spread. In the fight against the coronavirus, social distancing has proven to be a very effective measure to slow down the spread of the disease. India's government is promising to vaccinate the whole of the adult population by the end of 2021, although it’s biggest vaccine maker has been struggling to meet demand as there is shortage of raw materials therefore, social distancing is thought to be an adequate precaution (norm) against the spread of the pandemic virus. This deep learning based framework is used for automating the task of monitoring social distancing. The framework uses the YOLOv3 object recognition paradigm to identify humans in video sequences.

Keywords: COVID, social distancing, YOLO.