Privacy Preserving Monitoring Of Social Distancing In Public Environments Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Social Distancing, GDPR by design (PEOPLE)

  • Funded by Luxembourg National Research Fund
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $53,136
  • Funder

    Luxembourg National Research Fund
  • Principal Investigator

    Raphael Frank
  • Research Location

    Luxembourg
  • Lead Research Institution

    University of Luxembourg
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Epidemiological studies

  • Research Subcategory

    Impact/ effectiveness of control measures

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

The aim of this project is to provide a platform to run a comprehensive analysis on the Social Distancing measures decided by the government in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To do so we propose to analyse anonymised video data in the city of Luxembourg. The first step will be to anonymise the video feed by using well known Artificial Intelligence (AI) models (face blurring). In a next step will use other AI models to identify pedestrians and groups of individuals, calculate their relative distances and overall density. Those metrics can then be evaluated over time for different locations and provide valuable insights on the greater or lesser risks of infection spreading based on behaviour. The rules can be used either to inform where the police need to focus their efforts in enforcing rules, or to inform and influence the public's actions (or both).