Baidu open sources AI to identify people without face masks

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China’s leading search engine Baidu has open-sourced an AI model to detect people not wearing face masks.

• China has made it mandatory to wear face masks in several regions.
• It’s quite hard for authorities to catch people not wearing masks in large crowds. That’s where Baidu’s tool will be useful. The company said it had trained the model on more than 100,000 images to achieve prediction accuracy of 96.5%.
• Companies in China are trying to provide tools and funding to fuel research to find the deadly virus’ cure. Earlier this month, Baidu and e-commerce giant Alibaba opened-sourced AI models for university and medical centers to improve prediction times for RNA structure of the virus.

source: https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/02/17/baidu-open-sources-ai-to-identify-people-without-face-masks/