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Drowsiness and Fatigue of drivers are amongst the significant causes of road accidents. Every year, they increase the amounts of deaths and fatalities injuries globally.
About 20% of the people have admitted to falling asleep at the wheel with 40% of the people confessing that this has taken place at least once in their driving careers. In India, 40% of highway crashes or near-crashes occur due to drowsy driving.
Seeing at analyzed statistics, It’s a necessity to develop a driver safety system. This will help to predict the condition and emotion of a driver to provide information that will improve safety on the road.
There are 3 main steps to achieve this algorithm:-
- Detection of face in real time
- Locating Facial Features
- Computing Drowsiness