Review of Research on Fatigue Driving Detection Based on Driver Facial Features

Abstract

Fatigue driving is one of the main factors that threaten the safety of drivers and traffic. Efficient and accurate fatigue driving detection method can effectively ensure the safety of drivers and their surrounding traffic, maintain traffic order, and reduce property losses and casualties. The fatigue driving detection method based on the driver’s physiological characteristics and vehicle driving information has many limitations, such as being unfriendly to the driver and having numerous influencing factors. Therefore, the fatigue driving detection method based on the driver’s facial features has become a research hotspot. Firstly, the facial feature performance of fatigue driving is described, and advantages, disadvantages and application scenarios of common public datasets in the field of fatigue driving are summarized. Secondly, the advantages and disadvantages of common face detection algorithms in the field of fatigue driving detection are analyzed and studied by using open datasets and comparative experiments. Then, this paper generalizes the process of detection methods based on driver facial features, whose methods and technologies used in the key steps are reviewed. Furthermore, fatigue discriminant parameters and methods of fatigue driving results prediction are summarized. Finally, this paper ends with a discussion of current challenges of fatigue driving detection methods based on driver facial features and looks forward to the future research.

Keywords

• driver facial features; fatigue driving test; fatigue discriminant parameters; feature extraction; face detection