Diagnostic fusion for in vehicle Driver vigilance assessment

Abstract Driver impairment in broad terms is one of the most common causes for traffic accidents. In the context of impairment, decreased vigilance, fatigue and inattention are major factors accounting for driver errors. The real time detection and assessment of driver impairment through non-intrusive driver monitoring system is a real challenge. Within this paper, after an extended state of the art of the existing technologies and systems a Driver vigilance monitoring system, based on the fusion of physiological, behavioural and contextual information is described. This system has been implemented on a vehicle and real conditions experiments have been performed on motorway.