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An Automated Real-Time Face Mask Detection System Using Transfer Learning with Faster-RCNN in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Maha Farouk S. Sabir¹, Irfan Mehmood^2,*, Wafaa Adnan Alsaggaf³, Enas Fawai Khairullah³, Samar Alhuraiji⁴, Ahmed S. Alghamdi⁵, Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif⁶

1 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
2 Centre for Visual Computing, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K
3 Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, P.O. Box 23713, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
5 Department of Cybersecurity, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
6 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Menoufia University, 32511, Egypt

* Corresponding Author: Irfan Mehmood. Email: