Face mask detection algorithm for multi task recognition in complex environment

The right wearing masks can effectively prevent the spread of viruses. There are usually complex distractions in densely populated environments, which will affect detection tasks of face masks. However, the current detecting algorithm based on Faster R-CNN can not meet mask wearing detection of small targets in complex environments, so this paper puts forward a mask wearing detection algorithm based on the improved Faster R-CNN. This algorithm changes the traditional single RPN network model into one multi-task enhanced RPN model, which can improve the detection and recognition accuracy, the improved Soft-NMS algorithm is used to delete the redundant candidate boxes of regional candidate network output. At the same time, CIoU loss function with better performance, which fully considers the center point distance between the target and the detection frame and improves the accuracy of detection, replaced the original IoU loss function. 3000 sample images are used to do training and experimental verification of the model according to 1:3ratio of positive and negative samples. Experimental results show that compared with the Faster R-CNN algorithm, the algorithm proposed in this paper improves the face detection accuracy and face mask wearing detection by 7.15% and 15.99%respectively. Besides, the average detection accuracy improved by 11.57% and the FPS by 4.6.