TY - GEN
T1 - A Novel Privacy-Preserving Approach for Physical Distancing Measurement Using Thermal Sensor Array
AU - Naser, Abdallah
AU - Lotfi, Ahmad
AU - Zhong, Joni
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/6/29
Y1 - 2021/6/29
N2 - Physical distancing measurements are accepted to be critical strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19 disease. Most of the recent works to measure the physical distancing between people aims for easy-to-deploy systems such as contact tracing applications to speed up the deployment process. However, these systems, which rely heavily on the Bluetooth proximity sensor, tend to have serious performance and reliability issues. This paper proposes and explores using Thermal Sensor Array (TSA) towards physical distancing measurement. Distance estimation is achieved through using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) artificial neural network to measure the sensor-to-human distance and then to compute the physical distancing accordingly. Based on the conducted experimental work, the proposed sensor-to-human distance estimator's median overall error is ± 0.2m for unseen testing data.
AB - Physical distancing measurements are accepted to be critical strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19 disease. Most of the recent works to measure the physical distancing between people aims for easy-to-deploy systems such as contact tracing applications to speed up the deployment process. However, these systems, which rely heavily on the Bluetooth proximity sensor, tend to have serious performance and reliability issues. This paper proposes and explores using Thermal Sensor Array (TSA) towards physical distancing measurement. Distance estimation is achieved through using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) artificial neural network to measure the sensor-to-human distance and then to compute the physical distancing accordingly. Based on the conducted experimental work, the proposed sensor-to-human distance estimator's median overall error is ± 0.2m for unseen testing data.
KW - adaptive system
KW - artificial neural network
KW - distance estimation
KW - human-centred approach
KW - Physical distancing
KW - semantic segmentation
KW - thermal sensor array
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109252642&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3453892.3453903
DO - 10.1145/3453892.3453903
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85109252642
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 81
EP - 85
BT - 14th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2021
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 14th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2021
Y2 - 29 June 2021 through 1 July 2021
ER -
