Preliminary investigation of real-time monitoring of a driver in city traffic

Author

Betke, Margrit ; Mullally, William J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Boston Univ., MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

563

Lastpage

568

Abstract

We present a system that visually monitors the face of a driver and finds the location of the driver´s eyes in real time. Our system addresses the actual environment within the interior of a moving car and uses a consumer CCD camera mounted on the dashboard in front of the driver. We develop an eye detection method that is based on segmenting the head space from the image and then using edge detection and template matching to create eye templates online, and brightness filters to obtain the location of the eyes within the head space. We tested our real-time system in thousands of frames using various subjects, head and facial motions, and lighting conditions and report our preliminary results

Keywords

automobiles; computer vision; computerised monitoring; edge detection; image matching; image segmentation; real-time systems; target tracking; CCD camera; brightness filters; city traffic; driver monitoring; edge detection; eye tracking; image segmentation; real-time system; template matching; Brightness; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Eyes; Face detection; Head; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Monitoring; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2000. IV 2000. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6363-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.2000.898407

Filename

898407