Real-Time Eye, Gaze, and Face Pose Tracking for Monitoring Driver Vigilance
✍ Scribed by Qiang Ji; Xiaojie Yang
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 951 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1077-2014
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✦ Synopsis
T his paper describes a real-time prototype computer vision system for monitoring driver vigilance. The main components of the system consists of a remotely located video CCD camera, a specially designed hardware system for real-time image acquisition and for controlling the illuminator and the alarm system, and various computer vision algorithms for simultaneously, real-time and non-intrusively monitoring various visual bio-behaviors that typically characterize a driver's level of vigilance. The visual behaviors include eyelid movement, face orientation, and gaze movement (pupil movement). The system was tested in a simulating environment with subjects of different ethnic backgrounds, different genders, ages, with/without glasses, and under different illumination conditions, and it was found very robust, reliable and accurate.