An optimized eye locating and tracking system for driver fatigue monitoring

The eye locating and tracking are the most difficult and crucial tasks of real-time driver fatigue monitoring system based on computer vision. An optimized eye locating and tracking system, with a new eye tracking algorithm for monitoring driver´s vigilance, is presented in this paper, which is based on a hardware system using active IR (Infrared) illuminator. The system can work with subjects of different genders, ages, with or without glasses, and work well under different illumination conditions.