Drunk Driving and Drowsiness Detection

Development of safety features to prevent drunk and drowsy driving is one of the major technical challenges in the automobile industry. Driving while being drunk or drowsy is a major reason behind road accidents especially in the modern age. Driving when drowsy can lead to higher crash risk than being in alert state. Therefore, by using assistive systems to monitor driver's level of alertness can be of significant help in prevention of accidents. This paper aims towards the detection of driver's drowsiness using the visual features approach along with drunk detection using alcohol sensor. Driver drowsiness is based on real-time detection of the driver's head, face and mouth, where-in HAAR-Cascade classifier for face and eye detection and template matching in the mouth region for yawning detection. The system will also have an alcohol detection sensor which will determine whether the driver is drunk or not, thus covering the major reasons behind road accidents.