Top-Down Driver Head Orientation Detection Method Based on Monocular Camera and Virtual Scene Generation

  • Jiangnan Shi
  • , Jingyu Tang
  • , Menghan Hu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Head posture assessment plays a very important role in the fields of driver attention detection, driving behavior analysis, and driving habit analysis. The mainstream head posture assessment methods use cameras to capture all the driver’s front face videos, this approach has a natural drawback that it requires a lot of facially sensitive data which is contrary to the increasing awareness of privacy protection. Considering privacy protection, we innovatively apply a monocular camera to acquire an image of the driver’s head with top-down shooting view and develop a corresponding TOP OF HEAD ONLY (TOHO) algorithm to estimate the head orientation. Subsequently, the virtual scene generation technique is leveraged to generate diverse model data. The generated data is afterwards used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed TOHO algorithm. The experimental results show that the error of the head attention angle calculated by the proposed algorithm is within 15 compared to the labeled data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communications - 18th International Forum, IFTC 2021, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsGuangtao Zhai, Jun Zhou, Hua Yang, Ping An, Xiaokang Yang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages349-360
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789811922657
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event18th International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2021 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 3 Dec 20214 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1560 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference18th International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period3/12/214/12/21

Keywords

  • Driver attention detection
  • Head pose assessment
  • Image processing
  • Privacy preservation
  • Virtual scene generation

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