Innovation in public health surveillance for social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: A deep learning and object detection based novel approach

• Mohammad Arifuzzaman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Rizwan Shaikh, Iftekhar Bhuiyan, S. M. Raiyan Chowdhury, Tauhidul Islam Atoul

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dept. of CSE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dept. of ECE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Rizwan Shaikh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Rizwan Shaikh, Iftekhar Bhuiyan, S. M. Raiyan Chowdhury, Tauhidul Islam Atoul

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rshaikh@ewubd.edu

  Affiliations Dept. of EEE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dept. of ECE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6918-275X

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• Iftekhar Bhuiyan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Rizwan Shaikh, Iftekhar Bhuiyan, S. M. Raiyan Chowdhury, Tauhidul Islam Atoul

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Dept. of ECE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• S. M. Raiyan Chowdhury ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Rizwan Shaikh, Iftekhar Bhuiyan, S. M. Raiyan Chowdhury, Tauhidul Islam Atoul

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dept. of EEE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dept. of ECE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dept. of EEE, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Tauhidul Islam Atoul

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Rizwan Shaikh, Iftekhar Bhuiyan, S. M. Raiyan Chowdhury, Tauhidul Islam Atoul

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Dept. of ECE, East West University (EWU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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