Distinguishing sleepiness from mental fatigue in sustained monitoring tasks to enhance the reliability of fatigue detection based on multimodal fusion

Key Points

• Improved fatigue detection could enhance safety and performance in various tasks, leading to better outcomes.
• Sleepiness and mental fatigue present distinct challenges that affect performance during sustained monitoring tasks.
• Observational analysis method reveals important distinctions in how sleepiness and mental fatigue affect task performance.
• Understanding these differences may lead to more accurate fatigue detection and improve user response times.