Road Safety: Driver Drowsiness Detection

The Road Safety: Driver Drowsiness Detection project aims to develop a set of measurable indicators or metrics for driver drowsiness that could help in the design of alerting devices.

Driver fatigue and loss of vigilance are a major cause of accidents. One OECD estimate suggests that fatigue and lack of sleep cause of up to 25 per cent of road fatalities and are the number-one cause of heavy truck crashes in OECD countries.

Many studies have attempted to derive sets of measurable indicators or metrics that could help in the design of alerting devices used to reliably track driver drowsiness. However, most of these metrics are either too sensitive to environmental changes, invasive for the driver or complex and expensive to measure.

This project aims to develop an easy-to-use set of indicators based on head movements that could detect the early signs of driver drowsiness.

Research team

Dr. Abd-krim Seghouane
Phone: +61 2 6125 8621
Fax: +61 2 6130 6120

Address: Canberra Research Laboratory
Mining Industry House, Level 2
216 Northbourne Avenue
Braddon ACT 2612, Australia

Participants

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