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Drivers performance evaluation using physiological measurement in a driving simulator

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posted on 2019-01-16, 00:00 authored by Afsaneh Koohestani, P Kebria, Abbas KhosraviAbbas Khosravi, Saeid Nahavandi
Monitoring the drivers behaviour and detecting their awareness are of vital importance for road safety. Drivers distraction and low awareness are already known to be the main reason for accidents in the world. Distraction-related crashes have greatly increased in recent years due to the proliferation of communication, entertainment, and malfunctioning of driver assistance systems. Accordingly, there is a need for advanced systems to monitor the drivers behaviour and generate a warning if a degradation in a drivers performance is detected. The purpose of this study is to analyse the vehicle and drivers data to detect the onset of distraction. Physiological measurements, such as palm electrodermal activity, heart rate, breathing rate, and perinasal perspiration are analysed and applied for the development of the monitoring system. The dataset used in this research has these measurements for 68 healthy participants (35 male, 33 female/17 elderly, 51 young). These participants completed two driving sessions in a driving simulator, including the normal and loaded drive. In the loaded scenario, drivers were texting back words. The lane deviation of vehicle was recorded as the response variable. Different classification algorithms such as generalised linear, support vector model, K-nearest neighbour and random forest machines are implemented to classify the driver's performance based on input features. Prediction results indicate that random forest performs the best by achieving an area under the curve (AUC) of over 91%. It is also found that biographic features are not informative enough to analyse drivers performance while perinasal perspiration carries the most information.

History

Event

International Association for Pattern Recognition. Conference (2018 : Canberra, A.C.T.)

Series

International Association for Pattern Recognition Conference

Pagination

1 - 6

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Location

Canberra, A.C.T.

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.

Start date

2018-12-10

End date

2018-12-13

ISBN-13

9781538666029

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2018, IEEE

Editor/Contributor(s)

M Murshed, M Paul, M Asikuzzaman, M Pickering, A Natu, A Robles-Kelly, S You, L Zheng, A Rahman

Title of proceedings

DICTA 2018 : Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications