id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-258170-kyztc1jp Shorfuzzaman, Mohammad Towards the sustainable development of smart cities through mass video surveillance: A response to the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-11-05 .txt text/plain 5371 300 54 In particular, we make the following contributions: (a) A deep learning-based framework is presented for monitoring social distancing in the context of sustainable smart cities in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 or similar infectious diseases; (b) The proposed system leverages state-of-the-art, deep learning-based real-time object detection models for the detection of people in videos, captured with a monocular camera, to implement social distancing monitoring use cases; (c) A J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f perspective transformation is presented, where the captured video is transformed from a perspective view to a bird's eye (top-down) view to identify the region of interest (ROI) in which social distancing will be monitored; (d) A detailed performance evaluation is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed system on a video surveillance dataset. ./cache/cord-258170-kyztc1jp.txt ./txt/cord-258170-kyztc1jp.txt