question: In this difficult time of COVID19, using a facial mask is a life saver, specially in all indoor public places. In this work, a deep learning based approach is proposed that detects whether or not a human face contains a face mask. The proposed method is capable of detecting the facial mask with 98 % accuracy for any frontal face static image or videos. The validation was performed on a variety of different scenarios to ensure the accuracy. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.