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Recently, driver drowsiness has been one of the highest reasons for road accidents. Around 20% of all road accidents are fatigue related and 50% on some roads. Driver drowsiness detection aims at preventing these accidents caused by the driver getting drowsy by identifying so and setting off an alarm to warn the driver.

There are many ways to detect drowsiness of the driver :

1. Vehicle Based : Steering pattern monitoring, Vehicle position in lane monitoring

2. Behavioural Based : Driver eye/face monitoring

3. Physiological Based : ECG, EMG etc

We aim at studying the Behavioural based approach.



References :


1. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.458.7214&rep=rep1&type=pdf

2. https://ntl.bts.gov/lib/jpodocs/repts_te/7068.pdf

3. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/71bc/acba6bbd44ef330432ce1603c8874ca35d03.pdf

4. https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub2/grace_richard_2001_1/grace_richard_2001_1.pdf

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