AI and Covid-19 Challenges

 

       Since December 2019, when the world woke up to a new catastrophe that was not taken into account with Covid-19, despite the tremendous progress in all fields and sciences, especially in the fields of medicine and pharmacy, especially in the last century, and despite the hundreds of amazing medical discoveries that have revived Hope for mankind from the possibility of surpassing disease and even restoring youth by implanting stem cells, the opportunities for the possibility of creating laboratory organs, treatment for cancer, diabetes and other incurable diseases, we woke up to a nightmare that brings us back to the medieval and pre-technological ages and we have surprised by the declaration of the Corona virus Covid-19 as a global pandemic,while other viruses have been declared as a global epidemic in recent decades, the number of victims and the economic impacts of this latest epidemic have crossed all limits.

         We have discovered that we are still very far from reaching the amount of knowledge and that humanity has a lot to learn. Other than the recent epidemic Covid-19, the rules of the game, the world will not return to what it was before December 2019, after it imposed its rules on us from social distancing and commitment to wearing medical masks and caring for our health much more than before, and anxiety about even a simple infection of influenza that was not of any concern to most of us previously.

 

        As it is always known, the role of software developers has a great responsibility in implementing what the new rules of the game imposed on us for the Covid-19 epidemic in terms of facilitating and smoothing life in accordance with the new rules imposed on us, The artificial intelligence plays a very distinct and special role in this period , As we can make use of tens or perhaps hundreds of research that found its way to light in the last decade as a way humanity to adapt to new life in the post-Covid-19 world.

 
        In this article, we will talk about the most important applications that help companies, institutions, and various commercial and economic activities to perform their tasks to the fullest and to apply the rules of social distancing and measures to prevent infection with Covid-19 disease, according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization and health institutions in different countries.

 

 

 

Social Distance Detection

 

         

 

Using automatic recognition technology to save the distance between individuals (the base of social distancing) using artificial intelligence. There is no doubt that the open-source  OpenCV library, which contains many tools and algorithms, has helped and facilitated a lot for us to achieve our goals to build great applications using Deep Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

 
        Therefore, using a camera with medium capabilities and an acceptable price in the market, shops, companies, malls, bodies and institutions that provide public services can use that program that measures the distance between people and can send alerts or notifications to supervisors and officials upon discovery Violation of the rules of social distancing. Perhaps one of the best tools in this field is Tensorflow.

 

 

 Face Mask Detection

        Recognizing the obligation to wear a medical mask through the Wearing Mask Detection.
This tool can detect people who do not wear a medical mask and identify them even among crowds of people by means of surveillance cameras. It is also useful in places of gatherings and various services where the monitoring system can be programmed to alert specialists to the whereabouts of people who do not wear a medical mask through notifications or alerts. Alerts, which are sent simultaneously by different means, perhaps the most important and most famous of them is Google Firebase services for FCM messages, and there are many cloud services for messaging that perform this purpose.

 

 Age Recognition

 

 

 

Determination of Estimated Age for Persons

        Artificial intelligence techniques also provide an estimate of the ages of people, which helps in the case of some places that prohibit the entry of children or the elderly due to the instructions or directives of the competent health authorities, which makes it easier for officials to do that task.
 

        Previously we have found that Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Deep Machine Learning have played a major role in containing the situation, facilitating life and reducing the burden on officials in tracking compliance with medical rules and instructions instead of human monitoring by security personnel, for example, which may have been It will be more expensive and less effective.

    

    Conclusion

        So science always works, even in the darkest circumstances, by lighting a candle whose light sheds darkness, and we hope that soon science will find a successful solution and treatment for that disease and all diseases.

 
With my wishes for all the abundant health of all of you and your families and for you to last with all good