Detecting and Approving PPE with ML

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  Red shows when not wearing a mask

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  Green with labels shows when wearing PPE

Inspiration

I wanted to make a project that would aid in helping determine whether someone is wearing the proper PPE.

What it does

If someone is not wearing a mask, it puts them in red and reads out a warning. If they are wearing a mask or other PPE, it lists it out.

How we built it

I used the AWS Rekognition API to identify the PPE and OpenCV to draw the bounding boxes and display results.

Challenges we ran into

It was difficult because the actual PPE detection could almost one sec, which was too long to run on every frame. What I did was I used threads to run this process in the background.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for Detecting and Approving PPE with ML

Although I don't have access to it right now, I want to test with other kinds of PPE besides masks and gloves.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• python