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Real-Time Social Distancing Monitoring & Alerting using Live CCTV / Video 

Industries across the globe are looking at making their workplaces safer post-COVID pandemic.  Consider the locations within a workplace where employees tend to congregate like the coffee station, cafeteria, and hallway where it is difficult to monitor the staff.  There are different approaches to ensure social distancing that’s as using ground markers, Bluetooth-enabled devices that give haptic feedback if it finds a nearby device too close, or even manual monitoring. 

Many times it’s not possible to enforce a strict use of such mobile devices or deploy staff to monitor this.  

ThirdEye – Coforge’s solution 

Monitoring distance between people is a computer vision problem and can be done 24x7 with minimal manual intervention. We have developed an accelerator – “Inspection AI” which using CCTV cameras can estimate a bird’s eye view of the area in real-time and can predict the distance between detected people in inches/feet.  

With its real-time AI backbone (our “ThirdEye” accelerator for computer vision), the solution can be extended to send real-time alerts/notifications, generate floor density heat maps, and enable analysis trends of how well social distancing is maintained in the area. 

 

Third Eye

Since CCTV cameras are mostly installed in corners and they capture 2D frames in videos, images cannot be directly used for estimating distances. It’s necessary to use Computer Vision / AI techniques to detect people’s position and distance in a virtual Bird’s eye view. 

ThirdEye uses CCTV feed of an area to find people, and estimate the distance between them in real-time. 

The solution requires an initial calibration step to tell the system about the scene’s perspective and how to scale pixels to distance. 

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Key Benefits 

  • Keeping people healthy & safe in the times of a global pandemic (COVID-19) 
  • Can be applied to factories and warehouses where people (using heavy/dangerous equipment's) must keep a safe distance 
  • Help in opening up the businesses. Enforcing regulatory compliance in public health & safety (some countries) 

 

About ThirdEye 

ThirdEye is an AI platform from Coforge for building, managing, and analyzing Computer Vision related problems using machine learning & deep learning. 

ThirdEye is comprised of 

  • Distributed Architecture which can be deployed on Cloud or On-Premise 
  • Built using 100% Open Source Technologies and Coforge’s Tech Computer Vision Accelerator 
  • Built to support streaming content ingestion as well as RT insight generation capabilities 
  • Highly Scalable & Real-Time Architecture 
  • Simplified Setup with initial one-time Calibration 
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