Driving motion capture based driver behavior analysis

In this paper a study is presented to use a driving motion capture system to capture and interpret driving motion for a better understanding of driver behaviors which is crucial to highway traffic safety. The impetus to do this research is triggered by the prevalent success of a motion capture system in other areas such as computer 3D animation, bio-mechanics and athletic sports analysis. Driving motion capturing is a process to record and track drivers´ body movements and obtains their motion parameters in a three-dimensional space. The established driving motion database through the capturing system can be used to analyze the impacts of human fatigue and alcohol on their driving performance under varying traffic conditions.