Abstract:
Vehicle accidents are becoming a global public health concern, especially in
Ethiopia. According to a World Health Organization report in 2015, Ethiopia
is one of the 50 countries with the deadliest roads in the world. There are various attribute
towards to vehicle crashes i.e. not respecting traffic laws, high speed, poor diving skills,
road problem and undisciplined diver behavior. According to roads authority report of
2005 indicated that 1-3% of the accidents are related to the road but around 81 % of the
accidents are related to diver problems. As indicated by the statistics fatigue related
accidents are the most common type of accident in Ethiopia. Technological advancement
of computer vision is gradually finding applications in different problem domains as like
vehicle driver monitoring. Therefore, the implementation of vision technology in such
area will have a paramount importance to alert driver and all travelers finally it will
minimize vehicle accident related with the driver problem. So, the main purpose of this
research paper is to develop a computer vision system that identifies the driver facial
expressions like fatigue, chewing chat (ጫት), eating food፣ drinking water, etc and
alerting to the driver, assistant and the rest of traveler. The previous works focused on
identification of sleep for the driver and as per our review no work is conducted that have
many dimension facial reading not only for other country but also in our country
Ethiopia. So this paper focused on facial expression reading and eyes location for alerting
to the drivers using computer vision techniques and machine learning techniques. We
prepare our own dataset and we use CNN for future extraction FFNN and SVM for
classification. FFNN and SVM classify 74.24% and 69.69% accuracy respectively.
Keywords: CNN, local feature descriptor, feature extraction, SVM, FFNN, thresholding.