A Head Motion Recognition Approach for Alertness Detection

Abstract

Alertness detection is an important component of systems used to detect driver fatigue in order to prevent road accidents. Various approaches have been proposed in literature, including the use of sensors that track physiological markers and camera based systems that rely on computer vision techniques to track facial markers. In this paper, we adopt liveness detection to determine alertness. Liveness detection is a method used in biometrics to determine if a face, or fingerprint, is from a live person. The results show that the approach is robust to different lighting conditions.