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  • Open Access
215 Citations
21,231 Views
29 Pages

30 May 2021

Detecting drowsiness in drivers, especially multi-level drowsiness, is a difficult problem that is often approached using neurophysiological signals as the basis for building a reliable system. In this context, electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
10,945 Views
17 Pages

Non-Invasive Driver Drowsiness Detection System

  • Hafeez Ur Rehman Siddiqui,
  • Adil Ali Saleem,
  • Robert Brown,
  • Bahattin Bademci,
  • Ernesto Lee,
  • Furqan Rustam and
  • Sandra Dudley

15 July 2021

Drowsiness when in command of a vehicle leads to a decline in cognitive performance that affects driver behavior, potentially causing accidents. Drowsiness-related road accidents lead to severe trauma, economic consequences, impact on others, physica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,578 Views
19 Pages

Driver Identification and Detection of Drowsiness while Driving

  • Sonia Díaz-Santos,
  • Óscar Cigala-Álvarez,
  • Ester Gonzalez-Sosa,
  • Pino Caballero-Gil and
  • Cándido Caballero-Gil

20 March 2024

This paper introduces a cutting-edge approach that combines facial recognition and drowsiness detection technologies with Internet of Things capabilities, including 5G/6G connectivity, aimed at bolstering vehicle security and driver safety. The delin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
13,759 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2015

Driver drowsiness is a major cause of mortality in traffic accidents worldwide. Electroencephalographic (EEG) signal, which reflects the brain activities, is more directly related to drowsiness. Thus, many Brain-Machine-Interface (BMI) systems have b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,470 Views
18 Pages

Driver Drowsiness Detection: A Machine Learning Approach on Skin Conductance

  • Andrea Amidei,
  • Susanna Spinsante,
  • Grazia Iadarola,
  • Simone Benatti,
  • Federico Tramarin,
  • Paolo Pavan and
  • Luigi Rovati

15 April 2023

The majority of car accidents worldwide are caused by drowsy drivers. Therefore, it is important to be able to detect when a driver is starting to feel drowsy in order to warn them before a serious accident occurs. Sometimes, drivers are not aware of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,927 Views
26 Pages

31 January 2022

Drowsiness is not only a core challenge to safe driving in traditional driving conditions but also a serious obstacle for the wide acceptance of added services of self-driving cars (because drowsiness is, in fact, one of the most representative early...

  • Review
  • Open Access
175 Citations
38,058 Views
41 Pages

7 March 2022

Continuous advancements in computing technology and artificial intelligence in the past decade have led to improvements in driver monitoring systems. Numerous experimental studies have collected real driver drowsiness data and applied various artific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,906 Views
24 Pages

Drowsiness on the road is a widespread problem with fatal consequences; thus, a multitude of systems and techniques have been proposed. Among existing methods, Ghoddoosian et al. utilized temporal blinking patterns to detect early signs of drowsiness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,747 Views
13 Pages

Information on Drivers’ Sex Improves EEG-Based Drowsiness Detection Model

  • Igor Stancin,
  • Mirta Zelenika Zeba,
  • Kresimir Friganovic,
  • Mario Cifrek and
  • Alan Jovic

15 August 2022

Objective detection of a driver’s drowsiness is important for improving driving safety, and the most prominent indicator of drowsiness is changes in electroencephalographic (EEG) activity. Despite extensively documented behavioral differences b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,675 Views
34 Pages

Efficient Generalized Electroencephalography-Based Drowsiness Detection Approach with Minimal Electrodes

  • Aymen Zayed,
  • Nidhameddine Belhadj,
  • Khaled Ben Khalifa,
  • Mohamed Hedi Bedoui and
  • Carlos Valderrama

30 June 2024

Drowsiness is a main factor for various costly defects, even fatal accidents in areas such as construction, transportation, industry and medicine, due to the lack of monitoring vigilance in the mentioned areas. The implementation of a drowsiness dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,985 Views
21 Pages

Drowsiness Detection System Based on PERCLOS and Facial Physiological Signal

  • Robert Chen-Hao Chang,
  • Chia-Yu Wang,
  • Wei-Ting Chen and
  • Cheng-Di Chiu

19 July 2022

Accidents caused by fatigue occur frequently, and numerous scholars have devoted tremendous efforts to investigate methods to reduce accidents caused by fatigued driving. Accordingly, the assessment of the spirit status of the driver through the eyes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,907 Views
21 Pages

Drowsy driving significantly impairs drivers’ attention and reaction times, increasing the risk of accidents. Developing effective prevention technologies is therefore a critical task. Previous studies have highlighted several limitations: (1)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,916 Views
17 Pages

Drowsiness Detection Using Ocular Indices from EEG Signal

  • Sreeza Tarafder,
  • Nasreen Badruddin,
  • Norashikin Yahya and
  • Arbi Haza Nasution

24 June 2022

Drowsiness is one of the main causes of road accidents and endangers the lives of road users. Recently, there has been considerable interest in utilizing features extracted from electroencephalography (EEG) signals to detect driver drowsiness. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
17,812 Views
17 Pages

A Deep-Learning Approach to Driver Drowsiness Detection

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

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
861 Views
19 Pages

Nowadays, we live in the smart mobility era in which vehicles are equipped with small sensing devices to collect various road information. With such sensors, we are able to provide an overview of what is happening on the road and offer an efficient s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,600 Views
20 Pages

Drowsiness while driving is a common problem for many drivers and a significant problem in contemporary society. This study presents a method for detecting drowsiness while driving. The key finding is that six channels of EEG data are closely associa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
12,008 Views
19 Pages

Convolutional Neural Network for Drowsiness Detection Using EEG Signals

  • Siwar Chaabene,
  • Bassem Bouaziz,
  • Amal Boudaya,
  • Anita Hökelmann,
  • Achraf Ammar and
  • Lotfi Chaari

3 March 2021

Drowsiness detection (DD) has become a relevant area of active research in biomedical signal processing. Recently, various deep learning (DL) researches based on the EEG signals have been proposed to detect fatigue conditions. The research presented...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,052 Views
12 Pages

This study aims to utilize heart rate variability (HRV) signals obtained with a wearable sensor for driver drowsiness detection. To this end, we investigated respiration characteristics derived from HRV signals based on the known fact that respirator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
20,479 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,
  • Thuanne Paixão and
  • Ana Beatriz Alvarez

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
28,264 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,382 Views
26 Pages

Detection of Drowsiness among Drivers Using Novel Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model

  • Fiaz Majeed,
  • Umair Shafique,
  • Mejdl Safran,
  • Sultan Alfarhood and
  • Imran Ashraf

26 October 2023

Detecting drowsiness among drivers is critical for ensuring road safety and preventing accidents caused by drowsy or fatigued driving. Research on yawn detection among drivers has great significance in improving traffic safety. Although various studi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,249 Views
24 Pages

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

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

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)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,404 Views
23 Pages

19 October 2021

Drowsiness is a risk to human lives in many occupations and activities where full awareness is essential for the safe operation of systems and vehicles, such as driving a car or flying an airplane. Although it is one of the main causes of many road a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,561 Views
17 Pages

A CNN-Based Wearable System for Driver Drowsiness Detection

  • Yongkai Li,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Gancheng Zhu,
  • Zehao Huang,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Xiaoting Duan and
  • Zhiguo Wang

26 March 2023

Drowsiness poses a serious challenge to road safety and various in-cabin sensing technologies have been experimented with to monitor driver alertness. Cameras offer a convenient means for contactless sensing, but they may violate user privacy and req...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,171 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
19,381 Views
22 Pages

Real-Time Driver Drowsiness Detection Using Facial Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques

  • Siham Essahraui,
  • Ismail Lamaakal,
  • Ikhlas El Hamly,
  • Yassine Maleh,
  • Ibrahim Ouahbi,
  • Khalid El Makkaoui,
  • Mouncef Filali Bouami,
  • Paweł Pławiak,
  • Osama Alfarraj and
  • Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif

29 January 2025

Drowsy driving poses a significant challenge to road safety worldwide, contributing to thousands of accidents and fatalities annually. Despite advancements in driver drowsiness detection (DDD) systems, many existing methods face limitations such as i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
11,857 Views
21 Pages

14 February 2020

Drowsy driving imposes a high safety risk. Current systems often use driving behavior parameters for driver drowsiness detection. The continuous driving automation reduces the availability of these parameters, therefore reducing the scope of such met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,647 Views
24 Pages

Efficient Embedded System for Drowsiness Detection Based on EEG Signals: Features Extraction and Hardware Acceleration

  • Aymen Zayed,
  • Emanuel Trabes,
  • Jimmy Tarrillo,
  • Khaled Ben Khalifa and
  • Carlos Valderrama

Drowsiness detection is crucial for ensuring the safety of individuals engaged in high-risk activities. Numerous studies have explored drowsiness detection techniques based on EEG signals, but these have typically been validated on computers, which l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,073 Views
18 Pages

Drowsy driving is one of the major causes of traffic accidents, injuries, and deaths on roads worldwide. One of the best physiological signals that are useful in detecting a driver’s drowsiness is electroencephalography (EEG), a kind of brain s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,239 Views
21 Pages

13 June 2022

The detection of drowsiness while driving plays a vital role in ensuring road safety. Existing detection methods need to reduce external interference and sensor intrusiveness, and their algorithms must be modified to improve accuracy, stability, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
15 Pages

Improvement of Construction Workers’ Drowsiness Detection and Classification via Text-to-Image Augmentation and Computer Vision

  • Daegyo Jung,
  • Yejun Lee,
  • Kihyun Jeong,
  • Jeehee Lee,
  • Jinwoo Kim,
  • Hyunjung Park and
  • Jungho Jeon

16 October 2025

Detecting and classifying construction workers’ drowsiness is critical in the construction safety management domain. Research efforts to increase the reliability of drowsiness detection through image augmentation and computer vision approaches...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
21,809 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,
  • Xiaoyi Jiang and
  • Hui Yu

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,069 Views
18 Pages

Driver drowsiness detection is a significant element of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADASs), which utilize deep learning (DL) methods to improve road safety. A driver drowsiness detection system can trigger timely alerts like auditory or visua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Citations
13,129 Views
15 Pages

This paper aims to investigate the robust and distinguishable pattern of heart rate variability (HRV) signals, acquired from wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) or photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensors, for driver drowsiness detection. As wearable sensors ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,647 Views
36 Pages

EffRes-DrowsyNet: A Novel Hybrid Deep Learning Model Combining EfficientNetB0 and ResNet50 for Driver Drowsiness Detection

  • Sama Hussein Al-Gburi,
  • Kanar Alaa Al-Sammak,
  • Ion Marghescu,
  • Claudia Cristina Oprea,
  • Ana-Maria Claudia Drăgulinescu,
  • Nayef A. M. Alduais,
  • Khattab M. Ali Alheeti and
  • Nawar Alaa Hussein Al-Sammak

13 June 2025

Driver drowsiness is a major contributor to road accidents, often resulting from delayed reaction times and impaired cognitive performance. This study introduces EffRes-DrowsyNet, a hybrid deep learning model that integrates the architectural efficie...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,696 Views
10 Pages

Drowsiness driving poses a significant risk to road safety, necessitating effective drowsiness detection models. Most of the prior research has primarily relied on composite facial-based features, mainly focusing on the mouth and/or eye states, to id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,966 Views
35 Pages

18 June 2023

Driver drowsiness is one of the main causes of traffic accidents today. In recent years, driver drowsiness detection has suffered from issues integrating deep learning (DL) with Internet-of-things (IoT) devices due to the limited resources of IoT dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
20,676 Views
15 Pages

Real-Time Deep Learning-Based Drowsiness Detection: Leveraging Computer-Vision and Eye-Blink Analyses for Enhanced Road Safety

  • Furkat Safarov,
  • Farkhod Akhmedov,
  • Akmalbek Bobomirzaevich Abdusalomov,
  • Rashid Nasimov and
  • Young Im Cho

17 July 2023

Drowsy driving can significantly affect driving performance and overall road safety. Statistically, the main causes are decreased alertness and attention of the drivers. The combination of deep learning and computer-vision algorithm applications has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
10,252 Views
14 Pages

22 February 2019

This paper presents a novel feature selection method to design a non-invasive driver drowsiness detection system based on steering wheel data. The proposed feature selector can select the most related features to the drowsiness level to improve the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
9,409 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2021

Due to their high distinctiveness, robustness to illumination and simple computation, Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) features have attracted much attention and achieved remarkable success in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, an innovat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,179 Views
28 Pages

Introducing a Novel Fast Neighbourhood Component Analysis–Deep Neural Network Model for Enhanced Driver Drowsiness Detection

  • Sama Hussein Al-Gburi,
  • Kanar Alaa Al-Sammak,
  • Ion Marghescu,
  • Claudia Cristina Oprea,
  • Ana-Maria Claudia Drăgulinescu,
  • George Suciu,
  • Khattab M. Ali Alheeti,
  • Nayef A. M. Alduais and
  • Nawar Alaa Hussein Al-Sammak

Driver fatigue is a key factor in road accidents worldwide, requiring effective real-time detection mechanisms. Traditional deep neural network (DNN)-based solutions have shown promising results in detecting drowsiness; however, they are often less s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,046 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,150 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
20 Citations
10,523 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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
644 Citations
49,008 Views
17 Pages

Detecting Driver Drowsiness Based on Sensors: A Review

  • Arun Sahayadhas,
  • Kenneth Sundaraj and
  • Murugappan Murugappan

7 December 2012

In recent years, driver drowsiness has been one of the major causes of road accidents and can lead to severe physical injuries, deaths and significant economic losses. Statistics indicate the need of a reliable driver drowsiness detection system whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,890 Views
18 Pages

29 March 2021

Drowsy driving is a major threat to the safety of drivers and road traffic. Accurate and reliable drowsy driving detection technology can reduce accidents caused by drowsy driving. In this study, we present a new method to detect drowsy driving with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
16,046 Views
20 Pages

An Efficient Approach for Detecting Driver Drowsiness Based on Deep Learning

  • Anh-Cang Phan,
  • Ngoc-Hoang-Quyen Nguyen,
  • Thanh-Ngoan Trieu and
  • Thuong-Cang Phan

11 September 2021

Drowsy driving is one of the common causes of road accidents resulting in injuries, even death, and significant economic losses to drivers, road users, families, and society. There have been many studies carried out in an attempt to detect drowsiness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
281 Views
18 Pages

Early Drowsiness Detection via Second-Order Derivative Analysis of Heart Rate Variability: A Non-Contact ECG Approach with Machine Learning

  • Fabrice Vaussenat,
  • Abhiroop Bhattacharya,
  • Julie Payette,
  • Alireza Saidi,
  • Victor Bellemin,
  • Geordi-Gabriel Renaud-Dumoulin,
  • Sylvain G. Cloutier and
  • Ghyslain Gagnon

20 February 2026

Drowsy driving contributes to roughly 20% of traffic fatalities, yet most detection systems rely on behavioral cues that appear only after impairment has set in. Here we ask whether first and second derivatives of heart rate variability (HRV) can det...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,073 Views
27 Pages

7 April 2025

Drowsiness while driving poses a significant risk in terms of road safety, making effective drowsiness detection systems essential for the prevention of accidents. Facial signal-based detection methods have proven to be an effective approach to drows...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,349 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...

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