Face mask detection in smart cities using deep and transfer learning: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Y Himeur, S Al-Maadeed, I Varlamis, N Al-Maadeed… - Systems, 2023 - mdpi.com
After different consecutive waves, the pandemic phase of Coronavirus disease 2019 does
not look to be ending soon for most countries across the world. To slow the spread of the …

GasHisSDB: A new gastric histopathology image dataset for computer aided diagnosis of gastric cancer

W Hu, C Li, X Li, MM Rahaman, J Ma, Y Zhang… - Computers in biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and objective Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer globally, and early
detection of gastric cancer is essential to save lives. Histopathological examination of gastric …

Acoustic and perceptual impact of face masks on speech: A scoping review

G Badh, T Knowles - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment such as facial masks and
coverings were mandated all over the globe to protect against the virus. Although the …

Face mask effects on speaker verification performance in the presence of noise

KA Al-Karawi - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Due to its spread via physical contact and the regulations on wearing face masks, COVID-19
has resulted in tough challenges for speaker recognition. Masks may aid in preventing …

Cross-modal generative model for visual-guided binaural stereo generation

Z Li, B Zhao, Y Yuan - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Binaural stereo audio is recorded by imitating the way the human ear receives sound, which
provides people with an immersive listening experience. Existing approaches leverage …

A system design with deep learning and IoT to ensure education continuity for post-COVID

F Aydemir, S Arslan - IEEE Transactions on Consumer …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an IoT and deep learning-based comprehensive study to reduce the effects of
COVID-19 on the education system is presented. The proposed system consists of an edge …

Real-time mask detection based on SSD-MobileNetV2

C Cheng - 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After the outbreak of COVID-19, mask detection, as the most convenient and effective means
of prevention, plays a crucial role in epidemic prevention and control. An excellent automatic …

[PDF][PDF] Biometric Russian Audio-Visual Extended MASKS (BRAVE-MASKS) Corpus: Multimodal Mask Type Recognition Task.

M Markitantov, E Ryumina, D Ryumin, A Karpov - INTERSPEECH, 2022 - isca-archive.org
In this paper, we present a new multimodal corpus called Biometric Russian Audio-Visual
Extended MASKS (BRAVEMASKS), which is designed to analyze voice and facial …

Toward realigning automatic speaker verification in the era of COVID-19

A Khan, A Javed, KM Malik, MA Raza, J Ryan… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of face masks has increased dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic started in
order to to curb the spread of the disease. Additionally, breakthrough infections caused by …

Human behavior in the time of COVID-19: Learning from big data

H Lyu, A Imtiaz, Y Zhao, J Luo - Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic in
March 2020, there have been over 600 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than …