Detecting distraction of drivers using Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract With the intervention of social media and internet technology, people are getting more and more careless and distracted while driving which is having a severe detrimental effect on the safety of the driver and his fellow passengers. To provide an effective solution, this paper puts forward a Machine Learning model using Convolutional Neural Networks to not only detect the distracted driver but also identify the cause of his distraction by analyzing the images obtained using the camera module installed inside the vehicle. Convolutional Neural Networks are known to learn spatial features from images, which can be further examined by fully connected neural networks. The experimental results show a 99% average accuracy in distraction recognition and hence strongly support that our Convolutional Neural Networks model can be used to identify distraction among the drivers.