DRIVER DROWSINESS MONITORING BASED ON EYE AND YAWN DETECTION

Abstract

Drowsiness can be dangerous when performing tasks that require constant concentration, such as driving a vehicle. When a person is sufficiently fatigued, drowsiness may be experienced. Drowsy driving is a prevalent and serious public health issue that deserves more attention, education, and policy initiatives so a substantial amount of lives can be saved and disability averted due to drowsy driving accidents. In an effort to reduce the number of fatigue-related crashes and to save lives, special body and face gestures are used as sign of driver fatigue, including yawning, and eye movement, which indicate that the driver is no longer in a proper driving condition. In this paper, we discuss a method for detecting driver’s drowsiness and subsequently alerting the driver as well as the owner of the vehicle.