Recognizing driver awareness is an important prerequisite for the design of advanced automotive safety systems. Since visual attention is constrained to a driver's field of view, knowing where a driver is looking provides useful cues about his activity and awareness of the environment. This work presents an identity- and lighting-invariant system to estimate a driver's head pose. The system is fully autonomous and operates online in daytime and nighttime driving conditions, using a monocular video camera sensitive to visible and near-infrared light. We investigate the limitations of alternative systems when operated in a moving vehicle and compare our approach, which integrates Localized Gradient Orientation histograms with support vector machines for regression. We estimate the orientation of the driver's head in two degrees-of-freedom and evaluate the accuracy of our method in a vehicular testbed equipped with a cinematic motion capture system.
Head Pose Estimation for Driver Assistance Systems: A Robust Algorithm and Experimental Evaluation
2007-09-01
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