Using Computer Vision to Analyze Worldwide Social Distancing
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2020-10-08

Between April-September 2020, electrical and computer engineering student Isha Ghodgaonkar and colleagues analyzed 0.5 terabytes of data per week from 11,140 network cameras. The New Scientist journal recently published an article covering this research on studying worldwide social distancing.

Full story: http://bit.ly/ece-soc-dist

New Scientist article:  "Analyzing Worldwide Social Distancing through Large-Scale Computer Vision" https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12363

Purdue University School of Electrical & Computer Engineering:  https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE

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