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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,245 Views
20 Pages

4 October 2024

Distracted driving is a significant threat to road safety, causing numerous accidents every year. Driver distraction detection systems offer a promising solution by alerting the driver to refocus on the primary driving task. Even with increasing vehi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Views
20 Pages

Deformable Pyramid Sparse Transformer for Semi-Supervised Driver Distraction Detection

  • Qiang Zhao,
  • Zhichao Yu,
  • Jiahui Yu,
  • Simon James Fong,
  • Yuchu Lin,
  • Rui Wang and
  • Weiwei Lin

25 January 2026

Ensuring sustained driver attention is critical for intelligent transportation safety systems; however, the performance of data-driven driver distraction detection models is often limited by the high cost of large-scale manual annotation. To address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,108 Views
25 Pages

Driver Distraction Detection in Extreme Conditions Using Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks

  • János Hollósi,
  • Gábor Kovács,
  • Mykola Sysyn,
  • Dmytro Kurhan,
  • Szabolcs Fischer and
  • Viktor Nagy

Driver distraction can have severe safety consequences, particularly in public transportation. This paper presents a novel approach for detecting bus driver actions, such as mobile phone usage and interactions with passengers, using Kolmogorov–Arnold...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,785 Views
17 Pages

10 January 2024

Driver distraction detection not only helps to improve road safety and prevent traffic accidents, but also promotes the development of intelligent transportation systems, which is of great significance for creating a safer and more efficient transpor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,872 Views
18 Pages

8 April 2023

Driver distraction is considered a main cause of road accidents, every year, thousands of people obtain serious injuries, and most of them lose their lives. In addition, a continuous increase can be found in road accidents due to driver’s distr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
348 Views
23 Pages

9 December 2025

Driver distraction remains one of the leading causes of traffic accidents. Although deep learning approaches such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and Transformers have been extensively applied for distracted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,580 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2023

Driver distraction detection (3D) is essential in improving the efficiency and safety of transportation systems. Considering the requirements for user privacy and the phenomenon of data growth in real-world scenarios, existing methods are insufficien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,065 Views
27 Pages

SOMN_IA: Portable and Universal Device for Real-Time Detection of Driver’s Drowsiness and Distraction Levels

  • Jonathan Flores-Monroy,
  • Mariko Nakano-Miyatake,
  • Enrique Escamilla-Hernandez,
  • Gabriel Sanchez-Perez and
  • Hector Perez-Meana

16 August 2022

In this paper, we propose a portable device named SOMN_IA, to detect drowsiness and distraction in drivers. The SOMN_IA can be installed inside of any type of vehicle, and it operates in real time, alerting the dangerous state caused by drowsiness an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,062 Views
19 Pages

U2-Net: A Very-Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Detecting Distracted Drivers

  • Nawaf O. Alsrehin,
  • Mohit Gupta,
  • Izzat Alsmadi and
  • Saif Addeen Alrababah

31 October 2023

In recent years, the number of deaths and injuries resulting from traffic accidents has been increasing dramatically all over the world due to distracted drivers. Thus, a key element in developing intelligent vehicles and safe roads is monitoring dri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,270 Views
14 Pages

Distracted human driver detection is an important feature that should be included in most levels of autonomous cars, because most of these are still under development. Hereby, this paper proposes an architecture to perform this task in a fast and acc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,621 Views
20 Pages

Advancements in the Intelligent Detection of Driver Fatigue and Distraction: A Comprehensive Review

  • Shichen Fu,
  • Zhenhua Yang,
  • Yuan Ma,
  • Zhenfeng Li,
  • Le Xu and
  • Huixing Zhou

3 April 2024

Detecting the factors affecting drivers’ safe driving and taking early warning measures can effectively reduce the probability of automobile safety accidents and improve vehicle driving safety. Considering the two factors of driver fatigue and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,114 Views
16 Pages

Driver Distraction Detection Based on Fusion Enhancement and Global Saliency Optimization

  • Xueda Huang,
  • Shuangshuang Gu,
  • Yuanyuan Li,
  • Guanqiu Qi,
  • Zhiqin Zhu and
  • Yiyao An

20 October 2024

Driver distraction detection not only effectively prevents traffic accidents but also promotes the development of intelligent transportation systems. In recent years, thanks to the powerful feature learning capabilities of deep learning algorithms, d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,241 Views
23 Pages

26 February 2022

The increasing number of car accidents is a significant issue in current transportation systems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road accidents are the eighth highest top cause of death around the world. More than 80% of road accide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
18 Pages

26 September 2025

The deployment of conditionally automated vehicles raises safety concerns, as drivers often engage in non-driving-related tasks (NDRTs), delaying takeover responses. This study investigates driver state monitoring (DSM) using multimodal physiological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,390 Views
16 Pages

“Texting & Driving” Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

  • José María Celaya-Padilla,
  • Carlos Eric Galván-Tejada,
  • Joyce Selene Anaid Lozano-Aguilar,
  • Laura Alejandra Zanella-Calzada,
  • Huizilopoztli Luna-García,
  • Jorge Issac Galván-Tejada,
  • Nadia Karina Gamboa-Rosales,
  • Alberto Velez Rodriguez and
  • Hamurabi Gamboa-Rosales

24 July 2019

The effects of distracted driving are one of the main causes of deaths and injuries on U.S. roads. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), among the different types of distractions, the use of cellphones is highly rel...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,578 Views
39 Pages

Monitoring Distracted Driving Behaviours with Smartphones: An Extended Systematic Literature Review

  • Efi Papatheocharous,
  • Christian Kaiser,
  • Johanna Moser and
  • Alexander Stocker

29 August 2023

Driver behaviour monitoring is a broad area of research, with a variety of methods and approaches. Distraction from the use of electronic devices, such as smartphones for texting or talking on the phone, is one of the leading causes of vehicle accide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,316 Views
20 Pages

NeuroSafeDrive: An Intelligent System Using fNIRS for Driver Distraction Recognition

  • Ghazal Bargshady,
  • Hakki Gokalp Ustun,
  • Yasaman Baradaran,
  • Houshyar Asadi,
  • Ravinesh C Deo,
  • Jeroen Van Boxtel and
  • Raul Fernandez Rojas

8 May 2025

Driver distraction remains a critical factor in road accidents, necessitating intelligent systems for real-time detection. This study introduces a novel fNIRS-based method to to classify varying levels of driver distraction across diverse simulated s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,871 Views
11 Pages

11 June 2019

Distracted driving jeopardizes the safety of the driver and others. Numerous solutions have been proposed to prevent distracted driving, but the number of related accidents has not decreased. Such a deficiency comes from fragile system designs where...

  • Review
  • Open Access
108 Citations
23,638 Views
44 Pages

Driver Distraction Using Visual-Based Sensors and Algorithms

  • Alberto Fernández,
  • Rubén Usamentiaga,
  • Juan Luis Carús and
  • Rubén Casado

28 October 2016

Driver distraction, defined as the diversion of attention away from activities critical for safe driving toward a competing activity, is increasingly recognized as a significant source of injuries and fatalities on the roadway. Additionally, the tren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
16,822 Views
25 Pages

30 May 2017

In order to avoid car crashes, active safety systems are becoming more and more important. Many crashes are caused due to driver drowsiness or mobile phone usage. Detecting the drowsiness of the driver is very important for the safety of a car. Monit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,034 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2025

Recently, studies on driver inattention state recognition as an advanced mobility application technology are being actively conducted to prevent traffic accidents caused by driver drowsiness and distraction. The driver inattention state recognition s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,445 Views
22 Pages

Deep Learning Approach Based on Residual Neural Network and SVM Classifier for Driver’s Distraction Detection

  • Tahir Abbas,
  • Syed Farooq Ali,
  • Mazin Abed Mohammed,
  • Aadil Zia Khan,
  • Mazhar Javed Awan,
  • Arnab Majumdar and
  • Orawit Thinnukool

30 June 2022

In the last decade, distraction detection of a driver gained a lot of significance due to increases in the number of accidents. Many solutions, such as feature based, statistical, holistic, etc., have been proposed to solve this problem. With the adv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,928 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
25 Citations
4,990 Views
21 Pages

Optimally-Weighted Image-Pose Approach (OWIPA) for Distracted Driver Detection and Classification

  • Hong Vin Koay,
  • Joon Huang Chuah,
  • Chee-Onn Chow,
  • Yang-Lang Chang and
  • Bhuvendhraa Rudrusamy

15 July 2021

Distracted driving is the prime factor of motor vehicle accidents. Current studies on distraction detection focus on improving distraction detection performance through various techniques, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,772 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2024

One of the factors that threaten traffic safety and cause various traffic problems is distracted drivers. Various studies have been carried out to ensure traffic safety and, accordingly, to reduce traffic accidents. This study aims to determine drive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,162 Views
21 Pages

Driver Distraction Detection Based on Cloud Computing Architecture and Lightweight Neural Network

  • Xueda Huang,
  • Shaowen Wang,
  • Guanqiu Qi,
  • Zhiqin Zhu,
  • Yuanyuan Li,
  • Linhong Shuai,
  • Bin Wen,
  • Shiyao Chen and
  • Xin Huang

4 December 2023

Distracted behavior detection is an important task in computer-assisted driving. Although deep learning has made significant progress in this area, it is still difficult to meet the requirements of the real-time analysis and processing of massive dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,292 Views
15 Pages

25 January 2023

The use of mobile phones has become one of the major threats to road safety, especially in young novice drivers. To avoid crashes induced by distraction, adaptive distraction mitigation systems have been developed that can determine how to detect a d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,575 Views
21 Pages

Modern cities have imposed a fast-paced lifestyle where more drivers on the road suffer from fatigue and sleep deprivation. Consequently, road accidents have increased, becoming one of the leading causes of injuries and death among young adults and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,375 Views
11 Pages

Driver fatigue and inattention accounts for up to 20% of all traffic accidents, therefore any system that can warn the driver whenever fatigue occurs proves to be useful. Several systems have been devised to detect driver fatigue symptoms, such as me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,595 Views
20 Pages

A Novel EEG-Based Assessment of Distraction in Simulated Driving under Different Road and Traffic Conditions

  • Vincenzo Ronca,
  • Francois Brambati,
  • Linda Napoletano,
  • Cyril Marx,
  • Sandra Trösterer,
  • Alessia Vozzi,
  • Pietro Aricò,
  • Andrea Giorgi,
  • Rossella Capotorto and
  • Gianluca Di Flumeri
  • + 2 authors

21 February 2024

The drivers’ distraction plays a crucial role in road safety as it is one of the main impacting causes of road accidents. The phenomenon of distraction encompasses both psychological and environmental factors and, therefore, addressing the comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,729 Views
16 Pages

7 February 2018

One of the main reasons for fatal accidents on the road is distracted driving. The continuous attention of an individual driver is a necessity for the task of driving. While driving, certain levels of distraction can cause drivers to lose their atten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,555 Views
19 Pages

Driver Behavior Classification System Analysis Using Machine Learning Methods

  • Raymond Ghandour,
  • Albert Jose Potams,
  • Ilyes Boulkaibet,
  • Bilel Neji and
  • Zaher Al Barakeh

10 November 2021

Distraction while driving occurs when a driver is engaged in non-driving activities. These activities reduce the driver’s attention and focus on the road, therefore increasing the risk of accidents. As a consequence, the number of accidents inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,741 Views
16 Pages

A Nonintrusive and Real-Time Classification Method for Driver’s Gaze Region Using an RGB Camera

  • Huili Shi,
  • Longfei Chen,
  • Xiaoyuan Wang,
  • Gang Wang and
  • Quanzheng Wang

4 January 2022

Driver distraction has become a leading cause of traffic crashes. Visual distraction has the most direct impact on driving safety among various driver distractions. If the driver’s line of sight deviates from the road in front, there will be a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,087 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,424 Views
18 Pages

Pose Estimation of Driver’s Head Panning Based on Interpolation and Motion Vectors under a Boosting Framework

  • Syed Farooq Ali,
  • Ahmed Sohail Aslam,
  • Mazhar Javed Awan,
  • Awais Yasin and
  • Robertas Damaševičius

7 December 2021

Over the last decade, a driver’s distraction has gained popularity due to its increased significance and high impact on road accidents. Various factors, such as mood disorder, anxiety, nervousness, illness, loud music, and driver’s head r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,728 Views
13 Pages

6 December 2022

A difficult challenge for today’s driver monitoring systems is the detection of cognitive distraction. The present research presents the development of a theory-driven approach for cognitive distraction detection during manual driving based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,083 Views
18 Pages

Distraction Potential of Vehicle-Based On-Road Projection

  • Tobias Glück,
  • Tobias Biermann,
  • Alexander Wolf,
  • Sören Budig,
  • Arved Ziebehl,
  • Marvin Knöchelmann and
  • Roland Lachmayer

17 December 2021

With regard to autonomous driving, on-road projections cannot only be used for communication with the driver but also with other road users. Our study aims to investigate the distraction potential for other road users when on-road projections (e.g.,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,893 Views
21 Pages

A Proactive Recognition System for Detecting Commercial Vehicle Driver’s Distracted Behavior

  • Xintong Yan,
  • Jie He,
  • Guanhe Wu,
  • Changjian Zhang and
  • Chenwei Wang

19 March 2022

Road traffic accidents regarding commercial vehicles have been demonstrated as an important culprit restricting the steady development of the social economy, which are closely related to the distracted behavior of drivers. However, the existing drive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,463 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2019

Research on driver status recognition has been actively conducted to reduce fatal crashes caused by the driver’s distraction and drowsiness. As in many other research areas, deep-learning-based algorithms are showing excellent performance for d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,897 Views
22 Pages

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for the detection of behaviors indicative of reduced concentration levels among motor vehicle operators, leveraging multimodal image data. By integrating dedicated deep learning models, our approach sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,449 Views
15 Pages

To reduce safety accidents caused by distracted driving and address issues such as low recognition accuracy and deployment difficulties in current algorithms for distracted behavior detection, this paper proposes an algorithm that utilizes an improve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,697 Views
22 Pages

A Driver Gaze Estimation Method Based on Deep Learning

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

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,009 Views
25 Pages

An Intelligent Real-Time Driver Activity Recognition System Using Spatio-Temporal Features

  • Thomas Kidu,
  • Yongjun Song,
  • Kwang-Won Seo,
  • Sunyong Lee and
  • Taejoon Park

6 September 2024

With the rapid increase in the number of drivers, traffic accidents due to driver distraction is a major threat around the world. In this paper, we present a novel long-term recurrent convolutional network (LRCN) model for real-time driver activity r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,993 Views
14 Pages

14 November 2023

In order to solve the existing distracted driving behaviour detection algorithms’ problems such as low recognition accuracy, high leakage rate, high false recognition rate, poor real-time performance, etc., and to achieve high-precision real-ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,111 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,762 Views
11 Pages

A Data Augmentation Approach to Distracted Driving Detection

  • Jing Wang,
  • ZhongCheng Wu,
  • Fang Li and
  • Jun Zhang

22 December 2020

Distracted driving behavior has become a leading cause of vehicle crashes. This paper proposes a data augmentation method for distracted driving detection based on the driving operation area. First, the class activation mapping method is used to show...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,837 Views
16 Pages

Face Detection Using a Capsule Network for Driver Monitoring Application

  • János Hollósi,
  • Áron Ballagi,
  • Gábor Kovács,
  • Szabolcs Fischer and
  • Viktor Nagy

12 August 2023

Bus driver distraction and cognitive load lead to higher accident risk. Driver distraction sources and complex physical and psychological effects must be recognized and analyzed in real-world driving conditions to reduce risk and enhance overall road...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,180 Views
17 Pages

26 February 2022

Traditional methods for behavior detection of distracted drivers are not capable of capturing driver behavior features related to complex temporal features. With the goal to improve transportation safety and to reduce fatal accidents on roads, this r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,196 Views
17 Pages

Driver Distraction Recognition Using Wearable IMU Sensor Data

  • Wencai Sun,
  • Yihao Si,
  • Mengzhu Guo and
  • Shiwu Li

28 January 2021

Distracted driving has become a major cause of road traffic accidents. There are generally four different types of distractions: manual, visual, auditory, and cognitive. Manual distractions are the most common. Previous studies have used physiologica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
11,725 Views
23 Pages

23 September 2019

Real-time capturing of vehicle motion is the foundation of connected vehicles (CV) and safe driving. This study develops a novel vehicle motion detection system (VMDS) that detects lane-change, turning, acceleration, and deceleration using mobile sen...

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