What Can Be Predicted from Six Seconds of Driver Glances?
This work addresses the problem of real-time driver monitoring for safety applications, but it is incremental as it applies existing supervised learning methods to new data.
The study used a large real-world driving dataset to determine what driver and environmental states can be predicted from a 6-second sequence of driver glances, finding that glances can predict behaviors like radio-tuning and fatigue, as well as environmental variables.
We consider a large dataset of real-world, on-road driving from a 100-car naturalistic study to explore the predictive power of driver glances and, specifically, to answer the following question: what can be predicted about the state of the driver and the state of the driving environment from a 6-second sequence of macro-glances? The context-based nature of such glances allows for application of supervised learning to the problem of vision-based gaze estimation, making it robust, accurate, and reliable in messy, real-world conditions. So, it's valuable to ask whether such macro-glances can be used to infer behavioral, environmental, and demographic variables? We analyze 27 binary classification problems based on these variables. The takeaway is that glance can be used as part of a multi-sensor real-time system to predict radio-tuning, fatigue state, failure to signal, talking, and several environment variables.