Fatigue(Drowsiness) Detection using OpenCV

Applications

This can be used by riders who tends to drive the vehicle for a longer period of time that may lead to accidents

Code Requirements

The example code is in Python (version 2.7 or higher will work).

Dependencies

 1)import cv2
 2)import immutils
 3)import dlib
 4)import scipy
 5)import playsound
 6)import queue
 7)import time
 8)import sys

Description

A computer vision system made with the help of opencv that can automatically detect driver drowsiness in a real-time video stream and then play an alarm if the driver appears to be drowsy.

Algorithm

● We utilised a pre trained frontal face detector from Dlib’s library which is based on  a modification to the Histogram of Oriented Gradients in combination with Linear  SVM for classification. 

● The pre-trained facial landmark detector inside the dlib library is used to estimate  the location of 68 (x, y)-coordinates that map to facial structures on the face. The 68  landmark output is shown in the figure below. However, we utilised the 70 landmark  model.

● We then calculate the aspect ratio to check whether eyes are opened or closed.

● The eye is open if Eye Aspect ratio is greater than threshold. (Around 0.3)

● A blink is supposed to last 200-300 milliseconds.

● A drowsy blink would last for  800-900 ms. 

Execution

To run the code, run

python blinkDetect.py