Leveraging New Data Sources to Analyze the Risk of COVID-19 in Crowded Locations

Dr. Thiruvathukal gives lightning talk on the use of public network cameras and computer vision to analyze human mobility (pedestrian and vehicular traffic) during the ongoing COVID-19 era.

Leveraging New Data Sources to Analyze the Risk of COVID-19 in Crowded Locations
Using Pedestron to measure people counts in public spaces.

Every month, the Covid Information Commons brings together a group of researchers studying wide-ranging aspects of the current pandemic, to share their research and answer questions from the community.

George K. Thiruvathukal gave a lightning talk via Zoom at the September 2021 monthly webinar. His talk discussed how public cameras and computer vision can be used to observe human mobility trends in public settings during various stages of the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic.