Monitoring Head/Eye Motion for Driver Alertness with One Camera

We describe a system for analyzing human driver alertness. It relies on optical flow and color predicates to robustly track a person’s head and facial features. Our system classifies rotation in all viewing directions, detects eye/mouth occlusion, detects eye blinking, and recovers the 3D gaze of the eyes. We show results and discuss how this system can be used for monitoring driver alertness.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ICPR
• Authors: Paul Smith, Mubarak Shah, Niels da Vitoria Lobo
• Keywords: Detects Eye/mouth Occlusion, Driver Alertness, Human Driver Alertness, ICPR 2000