Title
Discrimination of Moderate and Acute Drowsiness Based on Spontaneous Facial Expressions
Abstract
It is important for drowsiness detection systems to identify different levels of drowsiness and respond appropriately at each level. This study explores how to discriminate moderate from acute drowsiness by applying computer vision techniques to the human face. In our previous study, spontaneous facial expressions measured through computer vision techniques were used as an indicator to discriminate alert from acutely drowsy episodes. In this study we are exploring which facial muscle movements are predictive of moderate and acute drowsiness. The effect of temporal dynamics of action units on prediction performances is explored by capturing temporal dynamics using an over complete representation of temporal Gabor Filters. In the final system we perform feature selection to build a classifier that can discriminate moderate drowsy from acute drowsy episodes. The system achieves a classification rate of .96 A' in discriminating moderately drowsy versus acutely drowsy episodes. Moreover the study reveals new information in facial behavior occurring during different stages of drowsiness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICPR.2010.943
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gabor filters,computer vision,face recognition,gesture recognition,image representation,acute drowsiness,computer vision,drowsiness detection systems,drowsiness discrimination,facial muscle movements,human face,moderate drowsiness,spontaneous facial expressions,temporal Gabor filter representation,temporal dynamics,Facial Expression Recognition,Moderate versus Acute Drowsiness Detection,Temporal Dynamics
Feature selection,Computer science,Gesture recognition,Facial muscles,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Pattern recognition,Speech recognition,Facial expression,Classification rate,Encoding (memory)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1051-4651
978-1-4244-7542-1
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vural, E.150.51
Marian Stewart Bartlett22026183.92
gwen littlewort3115967.40
Müjdat Çetin41342112.26