IIT-Kharagpur Researchers Develop AI-Based System To Monitor Social Distancing
A group at IIT-Kharagpur has evolved an AI-based machine to observe social distancing in public spaces
Kolkata:
A bunch of researchers at IIT-Kharagpur has evolved a cyber-physical machine in line with synthetic intelligence for tracking social distancing in public puts, an professional stated on Saturday.
The group, underneath the management of professor Debashish Chakravarty and professor Aditya Bandopadhyay, has engineered a low cost tool which will locate the distance between people, a spokesperson of IIT-Kharagpur stated.
“The tool will play a proximity alert sound via audio output, each time any violation of the social distancing norms happens. It captures pictures of the sector view and computes the space as in line with standards set via the Ministry of Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare,” a member of the analysis crew stated.
The researchers had centered at the ease of deployment of any such tool in faraway puts and curbing the associated fee via the use of affordable and simply available hardware fabrics, he stated.
Scholars have get a hold of the tool leveraging readily-available hardware whilst the lockdown used to be in position, the spokesperson stated.
The machine has been effectively examined via putting in 3 prototypes of the tool throughout the IIT-Kharagpur campus.
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