Drowsiness Detection Based on Eyelid Movement

Fatigue driving easily causes traffic accidents. drowsiness is an important hint of Fatigue. A novel drowsiness detection algorithms based on eyelid movement is proposed in the paper. The cascaded classifiers algorithm is used to detect driver´s face and the diamond searching algorithm used to trace the face. A simple feature is then extracted from temporal difference image and used to analyze rules of eyelid movement in drowsiness. Furthermore, three criterions are also presented and used to judge whether a driver is drowsy or not. Experimental results show that this new algorithm achieves a satisfied performance for drowsiness detection.