A Review on Driver Face Monitoring Systems for Fatigue and Distraction Detection

Every year, many car accidents due to driver fatigue and distraction occur around the world and cause many casualties and injuries. Driver face monitoring systems is one of the main approaches for driver fatigue or distraction detection and accident prevention. Driver face monitoring systems capture the images from driver face and extract the symptoms of fatigue and distraction from eyes, mouth and head. These symptoms are usually percentage of eyelid closure over time (PERCLOS), eyelid distance, eye blink rate, blink speed, gaze direction, eye saccadic movement, yawning, head nodding and head orientation. The system estimates driver alertness based on extracted symptoms and alarms if needed. In this paper, after an introduction to driver face monitoring systems, the general structure of these systems is discussed. Then a comprehensive review on driver face monitoring systems for fatigue and distraction detection is presented.