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    A deep learning approach to detect drowsy drivers in real time
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Pinto, A.; Bhasi, M.; Bhalekar, D.; Hegde, P.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Fatigue and microsleep are the reasons behind many severe road accidents. These can be avoided if the symptoms of fatigue are detected on time. This paper describes a real-time system for monitoring driver vigilance. Driver drowsiness detection algorithms in the past have proven to work in controlled environments but have not been implemented on a wide scale as of yet. Algorithms in the past suggest calculating a scalar value known as Eye Aspect Ratio (EAR) and detect drowsiness by comparing its instantaneous value with a previously configured value. We propose a generalised approach using Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) in this paper. Our algorithm tracks the driver's eyes and feeds it into a pre-trained that predicts the state of the eye. Once the prediction is obtained, we would be able to detect if the driver is drowsy or not. The main components of our system include a camera, for real time image acquisition, a processor for running algorithms to process the acquired image and an alarm system to warn the driver when the symptoms are detected in order to avoid potential accidents. © 2019 IEEE.
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    Development of low-cost real-time driver drowsiness detection system using eye centre tracking and dynamic thresholding
    (Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2020) Khan, F.; Sharma, S.
    One in every five vehicle accidents on the road today is caused simply due to driver fatigue. Fatigue or otherwise drowsiness, significantly reduces the concentration and vigilance of the driver thereby increasing the risk of inherent human error leading to injuries and fatalities. Hence, our primary motive being - to reduce road accidents using a non-intrusive image processing based alert system. In this regard, we have built a system that detects driver drowsiness by real time tracking and monitoring the pattern of the driver’s eyes. The stand alone system consists of 3 interconnected components - a processor, a camera and an alarm. After initial facial detection, the eyes are located, extracted and continuously monitored to check whether they are open or closed on the basis of a pixel-by-pixel method. When the eyes are seen to be closed for a certain amount of time, drowsiness is said to be detected and an alarm is issued accordingly to alert the driver and hence, prevent a casualty. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.