IIT-KGP researchers develop AI-based system to track social distancing

    Kolkata, Jun 13 (PTI) A group of researchers at IIT-
Kharagpur has developed a cyber-physical system based on
artificial intelligence for monitoring social distancing in
public places, an official said on Saturday.
    The team, under the leadership of professor Debashish
Chakravarty and professor Aditya Bandopadhyay, has engineered
a low-cost device which can detect the gap between
individuals, a spokesperson of IIT-KGP said.
    "The device will play a proximity alert sound through
audio output, whenever any violation of the social distancing
norms occurs. It captures images of the field view and
computes the distance as per criteria set by the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare," a member of the research group
said.
    The researchers had focused on the ease of deployment
of such a device in remote places and curtailing the cost by
using inexpensive and easily accessible hardware materials, he
said.
    Students have come up with the device leveraging
readily-available hardware while the lockdown was in place,
the spokesperson said.
    The system has been successfully tested by installing
three prototypes of the device within the IIT-Kharagpur
campus. PTI SUS
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