Affiliation:
1. Tijuana Institute of Technology, TecNM, Calzada Tecnológico S/N, Fracc. Tomas Aquino, Tijuana CP 22379, BC, Mexico
Abstract
The preventive measures taken to curb the spread of COVID-19 have emphasized the importance of wearing face masks to prevent potential infection with serious diseases during daily activities or for medical professionals working in hospitals. Due to the mandatory use of face masks, various methods employing artificial intelligence and deep learning have emerged to detect whether individuals are wearing masks. In this paper, we utilized convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify the use of face masks into three categories: no mask, incorrect mask, and proper mask. Establishing the appropriate CNN architecture can be a demanding task. This study compares four swarm intelligent metaheuristics: particle swarm optimization (PSO), grey wolf optimizer (GWO), bat algorithm (BA), and whale optimization algorithm (WOA). The CNN architecture design involves determining the essential hyperparameters of the CNNs. The results indicate the effectiveness of the PSO and BA in achieving an accuracy of 100% when using 10% of the images for testing. Meanwhile, when 90% of the images were used for testing, the results were as follows: PSO 97.15%, WOA 97.14%, BA 97.23%, and GWO 97.18%. These statistically significant differences demonstrate that the BA allows better results than the other metaheuristics analyzed in this study.
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,General Engineering
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