Analyzing Worldwide Social Distancing through Large-Scale Computer Vision

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12363v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:20:11 GMT
• Title: Analyzing Worldwide Social Distancing through Large-Scale Computer Vision
• Authors: Isha Ghodgaonkar, Subhankar Chakraborty, Vishnu Banna, Shane Allcroft, Mohammed Metwaly, Fischer Bordwell, Kohsuke Kimura, Xinxin Zhao, Abhinav Goel, Caleb Tung, Akhil Chinnakotla, Minghao Xue, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Mark Daniel Ward, Wei Zakharov, David S. Ebert, David M. Barbarash, George K. Thiruvathukal
• Abstract summary: In order to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world have introduced social distancing guidelines. Traditional observational methods such as in-person reporting is dangerous because observers may risk infection. This research team has created methods that can discover thousands of network cameras worldwide.
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• Abstract: In order to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world have introduced social distancing guidelines as public health interventions to reduce the spread of the disease. However, monitoring the efficacy of these guidelines at a large scale (nationwide or worldwide) is difficult. To make matters worse, traditional observational methods such as in-person reporting is dangerous because observers may risk infection. A better solution is to observe activities through network cameras; this approach is scalable and observers can stay in safe locations. This research team has created methods that can discover thousands of network cameras worldwide, retrieve data from the cameras, analyze the data, and report the sizes of crowds as different countries issued and lifted restrictions (also called ''lockdown''). We discover 11,140 network cameras that provide real-time data and we present the results across 15 countries. We collect data from these cameras beginning April 2020 at approximately 0.5TB per week. After analyzing 10,424,459 images from still image cameras and frames extracted periodically from video, the data reveals that the residents in some countries exhibited more activity (judged by numbers of people and vehicles) after the restrictions were lifted. In other countries, the amounts of activities showed no obvious changes during the restrictions and after the restrictions were lifted. The data further reveals whether people stay ''social distancing'', at least 6 feet apart. This study discerns whether social distancing is being followed in several types of locations and geographical locations worldwide and serve as an early indicator whether another wave of infections is likely to occur soon.

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