Detección de somnolencia y distracción en conductores y su implementación en dispositivos móviles

This study proposes a system that applies artificial intelligence tools to reduce the number of vehicular accidents produced by driver drowsiness and distraction. The proposed system, which is suitable for any kind of vehicle, detects the driver’s face, which is fed into a deep neural network that analyzes it. The network output is then fed into a detection stage which determines whether the driver is drowsy or distracted, activating an alarm. The proposed system has a low computational complexity, allowing real time implementation on mobile devices. The experimental results show that the proposed system can detect drowsiness and distraction with an accuracy of 95.8% in high performance computers. It also shows an 84.5% accuracy on mobile devices with limited capacity, keeping an acceptable operational speed for its implementation in real time. It is concluded that the proposed system detects driver drowsiness and distraction with high accuracy.