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Could artificial intelligence help restaurants reopen in a safer way? Seattle-based RealNetworks hopes so. The 26-year-old tech company has recently launched an app called MaskCheck that can detect whether someone is wearing a face covering properly through AI and encourages compliance via audible feedback. Though the app is generally intended for use in heavily trafficked venues, such as schools and public transportation, restaurants may find it useful as well, particularly once restrictions on indoor dining lift again.
The free app available nationwide for Android and iOS uses a tablet’s camera to determine full coverage for masks over a person’s nose and mouth, without using facial recognition or collecting any personally identifiable information. It then produces an audio message depending on whether someone is “good to go” or needs to make adjustments to the mask. The app can also send alerts to a manager of the venue if someone is detected without a f
Seattle company developing app to help businesses determine mask compliance Denise Whitaker | KOMO News
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SEATTLE (KOMO) Seattle-based RealNetworks is developing a new app to help businesses determine mask compliance.
Right now, mask compliance is typically figured out by surveying people or by random observations. RealNetworks says this type of data is typically biased, inaccurate and quickly obsolete, so it worked to develop MaskCheck. There was no observed data or behavioral data and this is what we think we can bring with MaskCheck is a way of understanding how people are wearing masks whether they’re wearing them properly, said Frederick Savoye, Vice President of Consumer Products at RealNetworks.