• DocumentCode
    2096107
  • Title

    Driver drowsiness monitoring based on yawning detection

  • Author

    Abtahi, Shabnam ; Hariri, Behnoosh ; Shirmohammadi, Shervin

  • Author_Institution
    Distrib. Collaborative Virtual Environ. Res. Lab., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-12 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Fatigue and drowsiness of drivers are amongst the significant causes of road accidents. In this paper, we discuss a method for detecting drivers´ drowsiness and subsequently alerting them. The aim is to reduce the number of accidents due to drivers fatigue and hence increase the transportation safety. Many special body and face gestures are used as sign of driver fatigue, including yawning, eye tiredness and eye movement, which indicate that the driver is no longer in a proper driving condition. Here, we propose a method of yawning detection based on the changes in the mouth geometric features.
  • Keywords
    accident prevention; emotion recognition; road accidents; sensors; body gesture; driver drowsiness monitoring; face gesture; fatigue; road accident; transportation safety; yawning detection; Decision support systems; Drowsiness Monitoring; face tracking; yawning detection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Binjiang
  • ISSN
    1091-5281
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7933-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IMTC.2011.5944101
  • Filename
    5944101