Drowsy Driver Detection System using Computer Vision and Transfer Learning for Preventing Road Accidents

Major traffic accidents are attributed to driver fatigue, according to study on the topic. Driver drowsiness is a state in which the driver of a car is on the verge of falling asleep or losing consciousness. It can be brought on by a number of variables, including biological, physical, psychological, and other factors, all of which can impede and inhibit safe driving. The several methods that can be applied to the implementation of a system for the detection of driver sleepiness will be reviewed in this paper. Improving the ability to identify drowsiness in real time through computer vision is the main objective of all technologies. Thus, our work also pertains to the identification of driver drowsiness, whereby a motorist's tiredness can be ascertained by first recognizing their face, followed by eye tracking. The system compares the extracted eye image with the dataset. The system used the dataset and predicts using transfer learning with our base model as InceptonV3 to identify that it could alert the driver with an alarm if the driver's eyes were closed for a predetermined amount of time, and it could resume monitoring if the driver's eyes were open following the alarm alert. We established a score that grew if the eyes were closed and dropped if they were open. This study aims to reduce traffic accidents by solving the sleepiness detection problem with InceptionV3 with an accuracy of 95.46% compare to 92.11% of VGG16.Thus, driving drowsiness detection—which assesses a driver's degree of fatigue using facial recognition and eye tracking becomes the main focus of our research.