Title
Support Vector Machine Based Detection of Drowsiness Using Minimum EEG Features
Abstract
Drowsiness presents major safety concerns for tasks that require long periods of focus and alertness. While there is a body of work on drowsiness detection using EEG signals in neuroscience and engineering, there exist unanswered questions pertaining to the best mechanisms to use for detecting drowsiness. Targeting a range of practical safety-awareness applications, this study adopts a machine learning based approach to build support vector machine (SVM) classifiers to distinguish between awake and drowsy states. While broadband alpha, beta, delta, and theta waves are often used as features in the existing work, lack of widely agreed precise definitions of such broadband signals and difficulty in accounting for interpersonal variability has led to poor classification performance as demonstrated in this study. Furthermore, the transition from wakefulness to drowsiness and deeper sleep stages is a complex multifaceted process. The richness of this process calls for inclusion of sub-band features for more accurate drowsiness detection. To shed light on the effectiveness of sub-banding, we quantitatively compare the performances of a large set of SVM classifiers trained upon a varying number of 1Hz sub band features. More importantly, we identify a compact set of neuroscientifcally motivated EEG features and demonstrate that the resulting classifier not only outperforms traditional broadband based classifiers but also is on a par with or superior than the best sub-band classifiers found by thorough search in a large space of 1Hz sub band features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SocialCom.2013.124
SocialCom
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
support vector machine,traditional broadband,minimum eeg features,broadband alpha,compact set,eeg signal,accurate drowsiness detection,best mechanism,sub band feature,complex multifaceted process,broadband signal,best sub-band,feature extraction,learning artificial intelligence,electroencephalography,sleep,support vector machines
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaoda Yu140.50
Peng Li21912152.85
Honghuang Lin3293.83
Ehsan Rohani4122.76
Gwan Choi536956.66
Botang Shao6231.61
Qian Wang740.50