Towards Fast and Accurate Intimate Contact Recognition through Video Analysis

Abstract

Intimate contact recognition has gained more attention in academia field in recent years due to the outbreak of Covid-19. However, state of the art solutions suffer from either inefficient accuracy or high cost. In this paper, we propose a novel method for COVID-19 intimate contact recognition in public spaces through video camera networks (CCTV). This method leverages distance detection and re-Identification algorithms, so pedestrians in close contact are re-identified, their identity information is obtained and stored in a database to realize contact tracing. We compare different social distance detection algorithms and the Faster-RCNN model outperforms other al-ternatives in terms of running speed. We also evaluate our Re-Identification model on two types of indicators in the PETS2009 dataset: mAP reaches 85.1%; rank-1, rank-5, and rank-10 reach 97.8%, 98.9%, and 98.9%, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that our solution can be effectively applied in public places to realize fast and accurate automatic contact tracing.