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Introduction to Computational and Biological Vision Fall 2007 Final project: Driver’s Sleepiness Detection System Submitted by: Idit GershoniIntroduction Motivation: Sleep deprivation is a major cause of traffic accidents. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study (in the U.S) showed that 37% of drivers surveyed admitted to falling asleep at the wheel. The same survey revealed 35% of drivers who nodded off while driving within the past six months say it happened between 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Right in the middle of broad daylight. According to The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?(NHTSA) around 100,000 car accidents every year are caused by the drivers?weariness. Another troubling fact is that Fall-asleep crashes are likely to be serious. The morbidity and mortality associated with drowsy-driving crashes are high, perhaps because of the higher speeds involved (Horne, Reyner, 1995b) combined with delayed reaction time. A few seconds before falling asleep, the eye closure occurrences increase dramatically. If we will be able to detect the first signs of sleepiness of the driver and send alert on time, we will be able to prevent what seemed to be inevitable car accident. Objectives: The objective of this project is to simulate sleepiness detection system using image processing methods. An AVI video file simulates a camera which pointed to the driver’s face. Using a Matlab program, the AVI movie file is extracted into frames (In the AVI format used in this project, the movie contains 30.0003 frames per second). The system searches for the eyes (circles) in each frame using edge detection and Circular Hough transform. If the eyes are not found for 8 consecutive frames, the system draws the conclusion that the driver is sleepy and produces a ‘beep’ sound to alert the driver. A short video film (in AVI format) of a?drivers face will demonstrate real-time video tracking system, which i