Drowsy driver mobile application: Development of a novel scleral-area detection method

Autor: Kausalendra Mahadas, George K. Hung, Faisal Mohammad
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Computers in Biology and Medicine. 89:76-83
ISSN: 0010-4825
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2017.07.027
Popis: A reliable and practical app for mobile devices was developed to detect driver drowsiness. It consisted of two main components: a Haar cascade classifier, provided by a computer vision framework called OpenCV, for face/eye detection; and a dedicated JAVA software code for image processing that was applied over a masked region circumscribing the eye. A binary threshold was performed over the masked region to provide a quantitative measure of the number of white pixels in the sclera, which represented the state of eye opening. A continuously low white-pixel count would indicate drowsiness, thereby triggering an alarm to alert the driver. This system was successfully implemented on: (1) a static face image, (2) two subjects under laboratory conditions, and (3) a subject in a vehicle environment.
Databáze: OpenAIRE