• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.266-270
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a technique of drowsiness detection using machine vision. The drowsiness of vehicle driver is often the primary cause of motor vehicle accidents. Therefore, the checking of eye images for detecting drowsiness status of driver is critical for preventing these accidents. In our suggested method, we analyze the changes of histogram and edge of eye region images which are acquired using CCD camera. We developed a drowsiness detection system using the histogram and edge change information. The experimental results show that our proposed method enhances the accuracy of detecting drowsiness nearly to 98%, and can be used for preventing vehicle accidents due to the drowsiness of drivers.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.102-107
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a technique of drowsiness detection using a histogram for vehicle safety. The drowsiness of vehicle drivers is often the main cause of many vehicle accidents. Therefore, the checking of eye images in order to detect the drowsiness status of a driver is very important for preventing accidents. In our suggested method, we analyse the changes of a histogram of eye region images which are acquired using a CCD camera. We develop a drowsiness detection system using this histogram change information. The experimental results show that the proposed method enhances the accuracy of detecting drowsiness to nearly 97%, and can be used to prevent accidents due to driver drowsiness.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.699-704
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• 2016

In this paper, we propose a development method for a drowsiness detection system using retinex theory and edge information for vehicle safety. Detection of a drowsy state of a driver is very important because the drowsiness of driver is often the main cause of many car accidents. After acquiring an image of the entire face, we executed the pre-process step using the retinex theory. We then applied a technique for the detection of the white pixels using edge information. Experimental results showed that the proposed method improved the accuracy of detecting drowsiness to nearly 98%, and can be used to prevent a car accident caused by the driver's drowsiness.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.189-194
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose the drowsiness detection method for car driver. This paper determines whether or not the driver's eyes are closed using the depth and infrared videos. The proposed method has the advantage to detect drowsiness without being affected by illumination. The proposed method detects a face in the depth picture by using the fact that the nose is closest to the camera. The driver's eyes are detected by using the extraction of harr-like feature within the detected face region. This method considers to be drowsiness if eyes are closed for a certain period of time. Simulation results show the drowsiness detection performance for the proposed method.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.1852-1861
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• 2016

Drowsy driving is a significant factor in traffic accidents, so driver drowsiness detection system based on computer vision for convenience and safety has been actively studied. However, it is difficult to accurately detect the driver drowsiness in complex background and environmental change. In this paper, it proposed the driver drowsiness detection algorithm to determine whether the driver is drowsy through the measurement standard of a yawn, eyes drowsy status, and nod based on facial features. The proposed algorithm detect the driver drowsiness in the complex background, and it is robust to changes in the environment. The algorithm can be applied in real time because of the processing speed faster. Throughout the experiment, we confirmed that the algorithm reliably detected driver drowsiness. The processing speed of the proposed algorithm is about 0.084ms. Also, the proposed algorithm can achieve an average detection rate of 98.48% and 97.37% for a yawn, drowsy eyes, and nod in the daytime and nighttime.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.94-102
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• 2011

본 논문은 눈 깜박임 패턴을 이용한 새로운 졸음 검출 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 유한오토마타를 이용한 졸음 검출 모델을 제안하여 눈감은 상태를 나타내는 입력 심벌의 개수만을 체크함으로써 눈 깜박임, 졸음, 수면 검출을 용이하게 하였다. 또한 수평 투영 히스토그램의 특성을 이용하여 눈동자가 있는 영역만을 구해 수직 투영 히스토그램을 취함으로써 눈썹이나 안경테와 같은 외부 영향을 최소화 시켜 정확도를 높였다. ZJU 눈 깜박임 데이터베이스를 이용한 눈 깜박임 검출 실험 결과 93% 이상의 정확도를 얻음으로써 제안된 방법의 우수함을 보였다.

• 한국인공지능학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.11-15
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to develop a pulsatile drowsiness detection system that can compensate the limitations of existing camera - based or breathing pressure sensor based Drowsiness driving prevention systems. A heart rate sensor mounted on the driver's finger and an alarm system that sounds when drowsiness is detected. The heart rate sensor was used to measure pulse changes in the wrist, and an alarm system based on the Arduino, which works in conjunction with the laptop, generates an audible alarm in the event of drowsiness. In this paper, we assume that the pulse rate of the drowsy state is 60 ~ 65 times / minute, which is the middle between the awake state and the sleep state. As a result of the experiment, the alarm sounded when the driver's pulse rate was in the drowsy pulse rate range. Based on these experiments, the drowsiness detection system was able to detect the drowsiness of the driver successfully in real time. A more effective drowsiness prevention system can be developed in the future by incorporating the results of the present study on a pulse-based drowsiness prevention system in an existing drowsiness prevention system.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.315-323
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• 1997

Driving is a complex vigilance task that includes improper lookout, excessive speed and inattention. The primary objective of this research is to detect driver drowsiness so that the driver can be alerted to an impending traffic accident in performance. We developed the automatic detection and warning system during drowsy driving. A drowsiness detection system must be able to monitor driver status and detect the detrimental changes of a driver performance. Eyeblink has been found to be a reliable factor of drowsiness detection in earlier studies. As an additional parameter, we also considered the yawning which often occurs in a low vigilance state and predicts the drowsy state. We used a computer vision method to extract the eyeblink and yawning in the face image sequences. When the drowsy state was detected, the driver was refreshed by alarming device and menthol scent generator after deciding the warning level by fuzzy logic. For the evaluation of our system, we measured the physiological parameters such as EOG and EEG. The results indicated that it is possible to detect and alert the driver drowsiness temporarily or continuously by using our system.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제39C권10호
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• pp.887-895
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• 2014

졸음운전은 전체 교통사고 원인 중 큰 비중을 차지하며 그 위험성이 음주운전보다도 크다고 알려져 있다. 따라서 운전자의 졸음을 판단하고 경고하는 시스템 개발에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있으며, 뇌파를 분석하는 것이 운전자의 피로와 졸음을 감지하는데 효과적이라는 연구결과들이 발표되었다. 본 논문은 짧은 시간에 높은 해상도를 가지는 auto-regressive 모델 기법 중 잡음에 강인한 errors-in-variables(EIV) 방법을 이용하여 특징벡터를 추출하고, 다층신경망(multilayer perceptron; MLP)에 적용하여 운전자의 상태를 각성, 천이, 졸음의 세 가지 상태로 분류하는 졸음 감지 시스템을 제안한다. 생체신호의 측정 환경에 따른 성능을 평가하기 위해 높은 진단률을 갖도록 하는 EIV차수를 결정하고, 잡음에 대한 강인성을 확인하기 위해 신호대 잡음비(signal-to-noise ratio; SNR)에 따른 성능을 선형 예측 부호화(linear predictive coding; LPC) 방법과 비교하였다. 이 결과로부터 제안한 EIV와 MLP를 결합한 졸음 감지 시스템은 기존의 LPC와 MLP를 이용한 시스템에 대해 우수한 성능을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.481-484
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• 2011

최근의 자동차 기술이 기계적 장치 위주에서 전장부품 특히, 차량의 안전 및 편의 기술로서 발전되고 있어서, 추후 자동차의 경쟁력은 에너지 효율성문제와 안전편의 기술의 적용에 의해 그 경쟁력이 결정될 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 자동차 운전자 졸림의 검지하기 위한 각종 기술을 소개하고 상용화된 기술의 장단점을 비교하여서, 이의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 복합 센싱기술을 소개한다. 기존의 카메라에 의한 눈동자인식을 기반으로한 직접적인 졸림검지와 운전자의 생체신호를 검출하여 간접적으로 스트레스, 피로도, 졸림을 검출하는 방법을 결합하여, 보다 정확도가 높은 졸림검지가 가능한 알고리즘을 개발하였다.