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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,001 Views
29 Pages

7 January 2019

Studies are being actively conducted on camera-based driver gaze tracking in a vehicle environment for vehicle interfaces and analyzing forward attention for judging driver inattention. In existing studies on the single-camera-based method, there are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning-Based Image Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
25,587 Views
19 Pages

Eye Aspect Ratio for Real-Time Drowsiness Detection to Improve Driver Safety

  • Christine Dewi,
  • Rung-Ching Chen,
  • Chun-Wei Chang,
  • Shih-Hung Wu and ,
  • Xiaoyi Jiang and
  • Hui Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 October 2022

Drowsiness is a major risk factor for road safety, contributing to serious injury, death, and economic loss on the road. Driving performance decreases because of increased drowsiness. In several different applications, such as facial movement analysi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,129 Views
7 Pages

13 October 2023

Drowsiness has become a significant contributing factor to traffic accidents in modern times, posing a major concern to society. Driver fatigue or sleepiness leads to decreased reaction time, diminished attention, and compromised decision-making abil...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 8th International Electrical Engineering Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Views
31 Pages

A Subject-Independent Temporal Framework for Behavioural Eye-Based Driver Drowsiness Detection

  • Olusola Olajide Ajayi,
  • Anish Mathew Kurien,
  • Karim Djouani and
  • Lamine Dieng

30 September 2026

Driver drowsiness detection systems are often evaluated using data partitions that may retain observations from the same individuals across training and testing, making their ability to generalise to unseen drivers difficult to assess. This study inv...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,526 Views
11 Pages

21 April 2024

This study refines the YOLOv7-tiny model through structured pruning and architectural fine-tuning, specifically for real-time eye state detection. By focusing on enhancing the model’s efficiency, particularly in environments with limited comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,865 Views
19 Pages

29 January 2026

Car accidents remain a leading cause of death worldwide, with drowsiness and distraction accounting for roughly 25% of fatal crashes in Ecuador. This study presents a real-time driver monitoring system that uses computer vision and deep learning to d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Fusion for the Safety of Automated Driving Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,665 Views
25 Pages

Drowsiness Detection in Drivers Using Facial Feature Analysis

  • Ebenezer Essel,
  • Fred Lacy,
  • Fatema Albalooshi,
  • Wael Elmedany and
  • Yasser Ismail

24 December 2024

Drowsiness has been recognized as a leading factor in road accidents worldwide. Despite considerable research in this area, this paper aims to improve the precision of drowsiness detection specifically for long-haul travel by employing the Dlib-based...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
13,850 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2017

The necessity for the classification of open and closed eyes is increasing in various fields, including analysis of eye fatigue in 3D TVs, analysis of the psychological states of test subjects, and eye status tracking-based driver drowsiness detectio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Video Analysis and Tracking Using State-of-the-Art Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,163 Views
11 Pages

27 August 2021

Labeling is a very costly and time consuming process that aims to generate datasets for training neural networks in several functionalities and projects. In the automotive field of driver monitoring it has a huge impact, where much of the budget is u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
31,574 Views
18 Pages

Drowsiness-related car accidents continue to have a significant effect on road safety. Many of these accidents can be eliminated by alerting the drivers once they start feeling drowsy. This work presents a non-invasive system for real-time driver dro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications in Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,793 Views
17 Pages

Women have been allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia since 2018, revoking a 30-year ban that also adhered to the traffic rules provided in the country. Conventional drivers are often monitored for safe driving by monitoring their facial reactions, eye bl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
22,276 Views
18 Pages

A CNN-Based Approach for Driver Drowsiness Detection by Real-Time Eye State Identification

  • Ruben Florez,
  • Facundo Palomino-Quispe,
  • Roger Jesus Coaquira-Castillo,
  • Julio Cesar Herrera-Levano and ,
  • Thuanne Paixão and
  • Ana Beatriz Alvarez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 July 2023

Drowsiness detection is an important task in road safety and other areas that require sustained attention. In this article, an approach to detect drowsiness in drivers is presented, focusing on the eye region, since eye fatigue is one of the first sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Based on Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,891 Views
31 Pages

6 November 2017

Recently, many studies have actively dealt with the issue of driver-gaze tracking for monitoring the forward gaze and physical condition. Driver-gaze tracking is an effective method of measuring a driver’s inattention that is one of the major causes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,172 Views
27 Pages

A Real-Time Embedded System for Driver Drowsiness Detection Based on Visual Analysis of the Eyes and Mouth Using Convolutional Neural Network and Mouth Aspect Ratio

  • Ruben Florez,
  • Facundo Palomino-Quispe,
  • Ana Beatriz Alvarez,
  • Roger Jesus Coaquira-Castillo and
  • Julio Cesar Herrera-Levano

27 September 2024

Currently, the number of vehicles in circulation continues to increase steadily, leading to a parallel increase in vehicular accidents. Among the many causes of these accidents, human factors such as driver drowsiness play a fundamental role. In this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Sensors Based on Embedded Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,641 Views
22 Pages

A Driver Gaze Estimation Method Based on Deep Learning

  • Sayyed Mudassar Shah,
  • Zhaoyun Sun,
  • Khalid Zaman,
  • Altaf Hussain and ,
  • Muhammad Shoaib and
  • Lili Pei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 May 2022

Car crashes are among the top ten leading causes of death; they could mainly be attributed to distracted drivers. An advanced driver-assistance technique (ADAT) is a procedure that can notify the driver about a dangerous scenario, reduce traffic cras...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
16,178 Views
15 Pages

Research on a Real-Time Driver Fatigue Detection Algorithm Based on Facial Video Sequences

  • Tianjun Zhu,
  • Chuang Zhang,
  • Tunglung Wu,
  • Zhuang Ouyang and ,
  • Houzhi Li,
  • Xiaoxiang Na,
  • Jianguo Liang and
  • Weihao Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 February 2022

The research on driver fatigue detection is of great significance to improve driving safety. This paper proposes a real-time comprehensive driver fatigue detection algorithm based on facial landmarks to improve the detection accuracy, which detects t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Computer Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,534 Views
19 Pages

25 April 2025

Fatigue driving is one of the crucial factors causing traffic accidents. Most existing fatigue driving detection algorithms overlook individual driver characteristics, potentially leading to misjudgments. This article presents a novel detection algor...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,209 Views
19 Pages

15 February 2023

Drowsy driving causes many accidents. Driver alertness and automobile control are challenged. Thus, a driver drowsiness detection system is becoming a necessity. In fact, invasive approaches that analyze electroencephalography signals with head elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,512 Views
18 Pages

24 September 2017

The risks involved in nighttime driving include drowsy drivers and dangerous vehicles. Prominent among the more dangerous vehicles around at night are the larger vehicles which are usually moving faster at night on a highway. In addition, the risk le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IEEE ICASI 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
14,063 Views
17 Pages

4D: A Real-Time Driver Drowsiness Detector Using Deep Learning

  • Israt Jahan,
  • K. M. Aslam Uddin,
  • Saydul Akbar Murad,
  • M. Saef Ullah Miah and ,
  • Tanvir Zaman Khan,
  • Mehedi Masud,
  • Sultan Aljahdali and
  • Anupam Kumar Bairagi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

There are a variety of potential uses for the classification of eye conditions, including tiredness detection, psychological condition evaluation, etc. Because of its significance, many studies utilizing typical neural network algorithms have already...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,869 Views
14 Pages

Driver Attention Detection Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Zhongzhou Wang,
  • Keming Yao and
  • Fuao Guo

30 May 2023

In response to negative impacts such as personal and property safety hazards caused by drivers being distracted while driving on the road, this article proposes a driver’s attention state-detection method based on the improved You Only Look Onc...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Image Processing, Analysis and Recognition Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,451 Views
19 Pages

30 April 2024

On-road driving studies are essential for comprehending real-world driver behavior. This study investigates the use of eye-tracking (ET) technology in research on driver behavior and attention during Controlled Driving Studies (CDS). One significant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Eye-Tracking Technologies: Theory, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,787 Views
18 Pages

VAS-3D: A Visual-Based Alerting System for Detecting Drowsy Drivers in Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Hadi El Zein,
  • Hassan Harb,
  • François Delmotte,
  • Oussama Zahwe and
  • Samir Haddad

Nowadays, driving accidents are considered one of the most crucial challenges for governments and communities that affect transportation systems and peoples lives. Unfortunately, there are many causes behind the accidents; however, drowsiness is one...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory, Method and Application of New Energy and Intelligent Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,636 Views
24 Pages

Gaussian Weighted Eye State Determination for Driving Fatigue Detection

  • Yunjie Xiang,
  • Rong Hu,
  • Yong Xu,
  • Chih-Yu Hsu and
  • Congliu Du

28 April 2023

Fatigue is a significant cause of traffic accidents. Developing a method for determining driver fatigue level by the state of the driver’s eye is a problem that requires a solution, especially when the driver is wearing a mask. Based on previou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,945 Views
33 Pages

28 March 2013

Road accident statistics from different countries show that a significant number of accidents occur due to driver’s fatigue and lack of awareness to traffic conditions. In particular, about 60% of the accidents in which long haul truck and bus driver...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends towards Automatic Vehicle Control and Perception Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,492 Views
16 Pages

Data Fusion to Develop a Driver Drowsiness Detection System with Robustness to Signal Loss

  • Sajjad Samiee,
  • Shahram Azadi,
  • Reza Kazemi,
  • Ali Nahvi and
  • Arno Eichberger

25 September 2014

This study proposes a drowsiness detection approach based on the combination of several different detection methods, with robustness to the input signal loss. Hence, if one of the methods fails for any reason, the whole system continues to work prope...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,032 Views
18 Pages

Fatigue Driving Recognition Method Based on Multi-Scale Facial Landmark Detector

  • Weichu Xiao,
  • Hongli Liu,
  • Ziji Ma,
  • Weihong Chen and ,
  • Changliang Sun and
  • Bo Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 December 2022

Fatigue driving behavior recognition in all-weather real driving environments is a challenging task. Accurate recognition of fatigue driving behavior is helpful to improve traffic safety. The facial landmark detector is crucial to fatigue driving rec...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,620 Views
12 Pages

30 August 2022

Driver fatigue and distracted driving are the two most common causes of major accidents. Thus, the on-board monitoring of driving behaviors is key in the development of intelligent vehicles. In this paper, we propose an approach which detects driver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
151 Citations
20,008 Views
34 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Gaze Detection System for Automobile Drivers Using a NIR Camera Sensor

  • Rizwan Ali Naqvi,
  • Muhammad Arsalan,
  • Ganbayar Batchuluun,
  • Hyo Sik Yoon and
  • Kang Ryoung Park

3 February 2018

A paradigm shift is required to prevent the increasing automobile accident deaths that are mostly due to the inattentive behavior of drivers. Knowledge of gaze region can provide valuable information regarding a driver’s point of attention. Accurate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Signal Processing and Visual Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,098 Views
20 Pages

Driver Emotion and Fatigue State Detection Based on Time Series Fusion

  • Yucheng Shang,
  • Mutian Yang,
  • Jianwei Cui,
  • Linwei Cui and ,
  • Zizheng Huang and
  • Xiang Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Studies have shown that driver fatigue or unpleasant emotions significantly increase driving risks. Detecting driver emotions and fatigue states and providing timely warnings can effectively minimize the incidence of traffic accidents. However, exist...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computer Vision and Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
10,686 Views
32 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Drivers Emotion Classification System in Time Series Data for Remote Applications

  • Rizwan Ali Naqvi,
  • Muhammad Arsalan,
  • Abdul Rehman,
  • Ateeq Ur Rehman and ,
  • Woong-Kee Loh and
  • Anand Paul
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 February 2020

Aggressive driving emotions is indeed one of the major causes for traffic accidents throughout the world. Real-time classification in time series data of abnormal and normal driving is a keystone to avoiding road accidents. Existing work on driving b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Learning for Time Series Remote Sensing Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,980 Views
22 Pages

12 October 2022

Public safety is prime concern in rail industry and driver training on hazard perception is crucial. Additionally, a new driver’s skill set determines the productivity and quality of existing driver training methods. Apprentice train drivers ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,139 Views
24 Pages

AI- and Deep Learning-Powered Driver Drowsiness Detection Method Using Facial Analysis

  • Tahesin Samira Delwar,
  • Mangal Singh,
  • Sayak Mukhopadhyay,
  • Akshay Kumar and ,
  • Deepak Parashar,
  • Yangwon Lee,
  • Md Habibur Rahman,
  • Mohammad Abrar Shakil Sejan and
  • Jee Youl Ryu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

22 January 2025

The significant number of road traffic accidents caused by fatigued drivers presents substantial risks to the public’s overall safety. In recent years, there has been a notable convergence of intelligent cameras and artificial intelligence (AI)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Deep Learning and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,915 Views
28 Pages

9 September 2025

Road traffic accidents remain a major global public health concern, where complex urban driving environments significantly elevate drivers’ visual load and accident risks. Unlike existing research that adopts a macro perspective by considering multip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,358 Views
21 Pages

11 September 2025

Sleepiness at the wheel is an important contributor to road traffic accidents. Slow eye movement (SEM) serves as a reliable physiological indicator for the sleep onset period (SOP). To detect SEM for recognizing drivers’ SOP, a Parallel Multimo...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,801 Views
20 Pages

A Machine Learning-Based Correlation Analysis between Driver Behaviour and Vital Signs: Approach and Case Study

  • Walaa Othman,
  • Batol Hamoud,
  • Alexey Kashevnik,
  • Nikolay Shilov and
  • Ammar Ali

24 August 2023

Driving behaviour analysis has drawn much attention in recent years due to the dramatic increase in the number of traffic accidents and casualties, and based on many studies, there is a relationship between the driving environment or behaviour and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,883 Views
20 Pages

Solar Glare Vulnerability Analysis of Urban Road Networks—A Methodology

  • Paula Redweik,
  • Cristina Catita,
  • Frederico Henriques and
  • Alexandre Rodrigues

14 December 2019

Solar glare on roads is responsible for momentaneous deterioration of a driver’s view, interfering with driving capacity and causing accidents. The situation of a driver being affected by solar glare on a road is a spatial-temporal variable, si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Mobility and Energy Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,314 Views
22 Pages

Research on Recognition of Road Hypnosis in the Typical Monotonous Scene

  • Huili Shi,
  • Longfei Chen,
  • Xiaoyuan Wang,
  • Bin Wang and ,
  • Gang Wang and
  • Fusheng Zhong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 February 2023

Road traffic safety can be influenced by road hypnosis. Accurate detection of the driver’s road hypnosis is a very important function urgently required in the driver assistance system. Road hypnosis recurs frequently in a certain period, and it...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,344 Views
14 Pages

This study presents a new method to track driver’s facial states, such as head pose and eye-blinking in the real-time basis. Since a driver in the natural driving condition moves his head in diverse ways and his face is often occluded by his hand or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technology Innovation 2015 (IMETI2015))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,252 Views
25 Pages

As intelligent vehicle technologies evolve, reliable driver monitoring systems have become increasingly critical for ensuring the safety of human drivers and operational reliability. This paper proposes a novel visual computing framework for Driver F...

(This article belongs to the Topic Unmanned Vehicles Technology and Embodied Intelligence Systems for Intelligent Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,794 Views
16 Pages

ADTIDO: Detecting the Tired Deck Officer with Fusion Feature Methods

  • Chenghao Li,
  • Yuhui Fu,
  • Ruihong Ouyang,
  • Yu Liu and
  • Xinwen Hou

29 August 2022

The incidence of maritime accidents can be significantly reduced by identifying the deck officer’s fatigue levels. The development of car driver fatigue detectors has employing electroencephalogram (EEG)-based technologies in recent years and m...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,285 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2024

In this paper, the implementation of a new pupil detection system based on artificial intelligence techniques suitable for real-time and real-word applications is presented. The proposed AI-based pupil detection system uses a classifier implemented w...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,103 Views
21 Pages

27 February 2025

Driver drowsiness remains a critical factor in road safety, necessitating the development of robust detection methodologies. This study presents a dual-framework approach that integrates a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a facial landmark anal...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
20,366 Views
17 Pages

A Deep-Learning Approach to Driver Drowsiness Detection

  • Mohammed Imran Basheer Ahmed,
  • Halah Alabdulkarem,
  • Fatimah Alomair,
  • Dana Aldossary and ,
  • Manar Alahmari,
  • Munira Alhumaidan,
  • Shoog Alrassan,
  • Atta Rahman,
  • Mustafa Youldash and
  • Gohar Zaman
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

13 September 2023

Drowsy driving is a widespread cause of traffic accidents, especially on highways. It has become an essential task to seek an understanding of the situation in order to be able to take immediate remedial actions to detect driver drowsiness and enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
21,852 Views
17 Pages

Steering a Tractor by Means of an EMG-Based Human-Machine Interface

  • Jaime Gomez-Gil,
  • Israel San-Jose-Gonzalez,
  • Luis Fernando Nicolas-Alonso and
  • Sergio Alonso-Garcia

11 July 2011

An electromiographic (EMG)-based human-machine interface (HMI) is a communication pathway between a human and a machine that operates by means of the acquisition and processing of EMG signals. This article explores the use of EMG-based HMIs in the st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors in Agriculture and Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,338 Views
25 Pages

In next-generation cars, safety equipment related to assisted driving systems commonly known as ADAS (advanced driver-assistance systems) are of particular interest for the major car-makers. When we talk about the “ADAS system”, we mean t...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,451 Views
28 Pages

8 September 2024

Fatigued driving is a problem that every driver will face, and traffic accidents caused by drowsy driving often occur involuntarily. If there is a fatigue detection and warning system, it is generally believed that the occurrence of some incidents ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Feature Selection (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
318 Views
18 Pages

17 September 2026

Mind wandering during driving is one of the major sources of road safety risk, but its expression across drivers of different styles remains unclear. Few studies have examined attentional state and driving style concurrently in a 1 h multimodal simul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technologies and Machine Learning for Cognitive and Physiological Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,231 Views
35 Pages

Multi-Index Driver Drowsiness Detection Method Based on Driver’s Facial Recognition Using Haar Features and Histograms of Oriented Gradients

  • Eduardo Quiles-Cucarella,
  • Julio Cano-Bernet,
  • Lucas Santos-Fernández,
  • Carlos Roldán-Blay and
  • Carlos Roldán-Porta

31 August 2024

It is estimated that 10% to 20% of road accidents are related to fatigue, with accidents caused by drowsiness up to twice as deadly as those caused by other factors. In order to reduce these numbers, strategies such as advertising campaigns, the impl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Systems for Automotive and Road Safety (Volume 2))
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,555 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Approach against Sun Glare to Enhance Driver Safety

  • Vlad-Ilie Ungureanu,
  • Răzvan-Cătălin Miclea,
  • Adrian Korodi and
  • Ioan Silea

26 April 2020

The automotive industry is developing continuously, trying to improve, among others, the safety of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. Using modern technology, the dangers caused by weather hazards like rain, snow, fog, or glare were identified and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence Systems and Sensors)

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