Name
Title | ||
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Continuous Head Movement Estimator for Driver Assistance: Issues, Algorithms, and On-Road Evaluations |
Abstract | ||
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Analysis of a driver's head behavior is an integral part of a driver monitoring system. In particular, the head pose and dynamics are strong indicators of a driver's focus of attention. Many existing state-of-the-art head dynamic analyzers are, however, limited to single-camera perspectives, which are susceptible to occlusion of facial features from spatially large head movements away from the frontal pose. Nonfrontal glances away from the road ahead, however, are of special interest since interesting events, which are critical to driver safety, occur during those times. In this paper, we present a distributed camera framework for head movement analysis, with emphasis on the ability to robustly and continuously operate even during large head movements. The proposed system tracks facial features and analyzes their geometric configuration to estimate the head pose using a 3-D model. We present two such solutions that additionally exploit the constraints that are present in a driving context and video data to improve tracking accuracy and computation time. Furthermore, we conduct a thorough comparative study with different camera configurations. For experimental evaluations, we collected a novel head pose data set from naturalistic on-road driving in urban streets and freeways, with particular emphasis on events inducing spatially large head movements (e.g., merge and lane change). Our analyses show promising results. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1109/TITS.2014.2300870 | Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
feature extraction,image motion analysis,object tracking,pose estimation,road safety,solid modelling,traffic engineering computing,3D model,continuous head movement estimator,distributed camera framework,driver assistance,driver attention focus,driver head behavior,driver monitoring system,driver safety,facial features,facial features tracking,geometric configuration,head dynamics,head movement analysis,head pose estmation,naturalistic on-road driving,single-camera perspectives,Accident prevention,active safety,distraction,driver attention,driver behavior,driver gaze/glance,driver head dynamics,naturalistic driving,situational awareness | Movement analysis,Computer vision,Monitoring system,Simulation,Feature extraction,Pose,Exploit,Video tracking,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Computation,Estimator | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
15 | 2 | 1524-9050 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
24 | 1.02 | 28 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Ashish Tawari | 1 | 219 | 16.07 |
| Sujitha Martin | 2 | 177 | 12.72 |
| Mohan M. Trivedi | 3 | 6564 | 475.50 |