Driving behavior analysis using vision-based head pose estimation for enhanced communication among traffic participants

We propose a scheme to evaluate driver behaviors by a vision-based head pose estimation method. In our project, we are investigating a collaborative safety mechanism based on the mutual sharing of driver information (attention and performance) in daily situations. The analysis of driver behaviors based on a non-contact type of measurement is one key issue in our mechanism. In this paper, we describe a voting-based head pose estimation algorithm and several driving behavior analysis results using our method. We also address examples of graphical representations for driver information sharing that directly correspond to the extracted driving behaviors.