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Driver State Monitoring System

The driver state monitoring system is a camera-based device that can track driver head movement and eye glance, detect driver distraction and drowsiness, and issue warnings.

Last Updated: 06/04/2025 | All information is accurate and up-to-date

Brief Introduction to the DSM System

The driver state monitoring system is a camera-based device that can track driver head movement and eye glance, detect driver distraction and drowsiness, and issue warnings.

Systematic Evaluation of the DSM System

  • Scenarios
    • Demographic Features: ethnicity, age, height, gender, weight, skin color, eye color
    • Facial Features: hairstyle, beard style, glasses features, sunglasses features
    • Lighting conditions:
      • Night: streetlight, mirror reflections, oncoming traffic frontal lights
      • Daylight: clear sky, overcast, direct sunlight, dynamic shadows, static shadows
  • 1000+ subjects, each completing 1-2 hours of experiments
  • Evaluation metrics:
    • Ground-truth head rotation angles and eye glance angles
    • Predetermined glance locations
    • Manually annotated eye blinks, occlusions, and glares
    • Ground-truth mental states based on psychological measurements