Detecting Driver's Gaze Direction using the Rear-View Mirror Built in an Image Sensor

Abstract

We developed a method for detecting driver's gaze direction. Most of traffic accidents are caused by driver's human errors, which often appear with driver's look a side behavior while driving. It is appropriate to provide the drivers warning information depending on their attention levels. We developed our method that detects the positions of both eyes in an image acquired by a camera built in a rear-view mirror for a driver assistance system. Assuming that driver's faces are projected correctly in the images, described in this paper, are the method that we detected the driver's gaze directions accurately.