Detecting drowsiness while driving by measuring eye movement- A pilot study

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 156-161

  Hayami, Takchito ^a   Matsunaga, Katsuya ^a   Shidoji, Kazunori ^a   Matsuki, Yuji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blink; Drowsy driver detection; Eye movements; Image analysis; Sleep onset

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION;

BLINK; DRIVING SIMULATOR; DROWSY DRIVER; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; MOVEMENT FREQUENCIES; POSSIBILITY DENSITIES; SLEEP ONSET; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84949210105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2002.1041206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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