Gathering information on the large crowd of pilgrims attending Hajj is beneficial for management and safety of the event. Capturing information from videos can provide an effective method to gather different kind of data. However extracting information from such a large crowd is a challenging process. Computer vision allows for capturing of such information without the need for specialized devi...

Hajj and Umrah are holy events performed by millions of Muslim pilgrims every year. Management of such events is a real challenge. This paper proposes a modular framework for the distributed management of those events. In this framework, a cloud-based global server is used to communicate general information with a pilgrim mobile application. On the other hand, each campaign is assigned a cloud-...

Background: Annually, in the month of Dhul hijjah, over 2 million Muslims travel to Saudi Arabia perform Hajj. Hajj is biggest mass gathering globally, which creates a significant influence on Hajjes' health. The Omani medical mission official delegation from government serve hajjees regarding their health Sduring 1440 H. Methods: We conducted cross-sectional study at Medical missions Makkah, M...

The scared cities of Makkah Al Mukarramah and Madina Al Munawarah host millions of pilgrims every year. During Hajj, the movement of large number of people has a unique spatial and temporal constraints, which makes Hajj one of toughest challenges for crowd management. In this paper, we propose a computer vision based framework that automatically analyses video sequence and computes important me...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diseases pattern among pilgrims attending the 2 Holy Mosque (Haram) Health Care Centers during the Hajj season 2013 (Hijra 1434).  METHODS In this cross-sectional study, data was collected from 2 medical centers located in the Holy Mosque in Makkah city, Saudi Arabia, from the first of Dhul-Hijjah to sixteenth Dhul-Hijjah 1434. The present study was completed in 16 d...

Between April 2012 and June 2014, 820 laboratory-confirmed cases of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been reported in the Arabian Peninsula, Europe, North Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. The observed epidemiology is different to SARS, which showed a classic epidemic curve and was over in eight months. The much longer persistence of...