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Research Article

Eye blinking-based method for detecting driver drowsiness

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Pages 416-419 | Received 16 Aug 2014, Accepted 19 Sep 2014, Published online: 23 Oct 2014
 

Abstract

Drowsy driving is a major cause of traffic accidents. Eye blinking is considered as important evidence of driver drowsiness. In this paper, a portable and low cost device for monitoring a driver’s drowsiness is proposed. The proposed system consists of two main parts that detect eye blinking based on IR sensors mounted on eyewear. Depending on the reflected and absorbed IR radiation, this system detects and classifies the eye blinking into normal blinking (NB) or prolonged blinking (PB). The detected prolonged blinking is used to trigger an audio/visual alarm system which draws the driver’s attention back. The system was simulated initially by LabVIEW® software. Moreover, the system was bench tested on 15 adult volunteers; eye blinking were detected and classified successfully for all subjects. The results of this research are promising and additional investigation is required to further improve the method.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to dedicate this work to the memory of Dr Zaid Al Ghzawi who proposed the idea of this work.

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