Monitoring Driver's Cognitive Status Based on Integration of Internal and External Information

In Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADASs), monitoring the driver's cognitive status during driving is considered as an important issue. Because, most of the accidents in the automotive sector occur due to the driver's misinterpretation or lack of sufficient information regarding the situation. In order to prevent these accidents, current ADASs include lane departure warning systems, vehicle detection systems, advanced cruise control systems, etc. In a particular driving scenario, the amount of information available to the driver regarding a situation can be judged by monitoring the driver's gaze (internal information) and distributions corresponding to the forward traffic (external information). Therefore, to provide sufficient information to the driver regarding a driving scenario it is essential to integrate the internal and external information which is lacking in the current ADASs. In this paper, we use 3D pose estimate algorithm (POSIT) to estimate driver's attention area. In order to estimate the distributions corresponding to the forward traffic we employ Bottom-up Saliency map. To integrate the internal and external information we use conditional mutual information.