Observing Human Mobility Internationally During COVID-19

Shane Allcroft, Mohammed Metwaly, Zachery Berg, Isha Ghodgaonkar, Fischer Bordwell, XinXin Zhao, Xinglei Liu, Jiahao Xu, Subhankar Chakraborty, Vishnu Banna, Akhil Chinnakotla, Abhinav Goel, Caleb Tung, Gore Kao, Wei Zakharov, David A Shoham, George K. Thiruvathukal, Yung-Hsiang Lu

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Abstract

This article analyzes visual data captured from five countries and three U.S. states to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdown policies for reducing the spread of COVID-19. The main challenge is the scale: nearly six million images are analyzed to observe how people respond to the policy changes.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalComputer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Volume56
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 3 2023

Keywords

  • big data
  • computer vision
  • epidemics
  • COVID-19

Disciplines

  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  • Computer Sciences

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