Eyes Status Detector Based on Light-weight Convolutional Neural Networks supporting for Drowsiness Detection System

The drowsiness is the leading cause of many accidents on the road. These causes can be reduced by using the drowsiness alarm or drowsiness detection system. These systems monitor drivers while driving and alarm when they don’t focus or have some abnormal signs in the driver’s body. Currently, most methodologies use the analysis of human behaviors, vehicle behaviors, and human physiological conditions. This paper regards eyes status analysis based on deep learning method using proposed Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) with two stages are face detection and eyes classification. The face detector employs a single detector module and shallow layer, then the eyes classifier using simple CNN without ignoring the accuracy. As a result, the average speed was tested in real-time by 50.03 fps (frames per second) on Intel Core I7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz.