Fight Against Cov19, Detecting Unmasked People with AI
Due to recent conditions, communities change their Meetup format from offline based to online. Machine Learning Indonesia (MLID) is no exception, though we were slow to adopt a new Meetup format.
We started online Meetup series with Afif Akbar Iskandar, a man behind ngodingpython.com. If you don’t know yet about ngodingpython.com, it is an online platform to learn Python, which provides a wide range of courses from basic programming to machine learning.
Held on YouTube on June 27th, 2020, we had an interactive session with about >100 participants.
The topic was hot. The authority told us to wear a mask in the public place. Even so, there still people who don’t wear a mask. Traditionally we will use human-based discriminator to spot a person who wears a mask and who isn’t. But we are tech guys, we are dying to solve any problem with a computer.
We know AI can help us identify people with or without a mask. The technology is here, what we need to do is to write some code, isn’t it?
Teaching is Afif’s passion, he spent his time to mastering his lecture method as many as the time he spent to grasp AI fundamental and technical. It is no surprise if we found his talk is well prepared in a good structure. Moreover, he prepared the data, code, and end result for us. So we need to worry not if we can’t follow the live event. We can reproduce the process to make our mask people detector system by following his lecture later.
Afif initiates the Meetup with an introduction about PyTorch Lightning, The lightweight PyTorch wrapper, and the platform he used, Google Colab. Afif adds some testimony from his experiences so we can anticipate Google Colab’s uniqueness.
He then explains step by step to build an AI model for the discriminator system. More technical on the model architecture he used CNN. But it’s no fun at all if we reveal the full course contents in this story. So please check it out for yourself. :)
Afif had addressed some questions too, but if you have any, you can drop your question(s) to him.
We had many challenges on our first online Meetup and we are still learning which aspect do we need to improve first. If you have any suggestions please reach us on https://t.me/machinelearningid. Besides, we always on the help wanted mode, so volunteers are always welcomed.
P.S. If you read this story before July 11th, 2020, we offer you to join our second online Meetup on Saturday on the date. We will cover some Pandas Tips and Tricks presented by Setia Budi, Ph.D.
