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A HW/SW Co-Design Implementation of Viola-Jones Algorithm for Driver Drowsiness Detection

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There have been various recent methods proposed in detecting driver drowsiness (DD) to avert fatal accidents. This work proposes a hardware/software (HW/SW) co-design approach in implementation of a DD detection system adapted from the Viola-Jones algorithm to monitor driver’s eye closure rate. In this work, critical functions of the DD detection algorithm is accelerated through custom hardware components in order to speed up processing, while the software component implements the overall control and logical operations to achieve the complete functionality required of the DD detection algorithm. The HW/SW architecture was implemented on an Altera DE2 board with a video daughter board. Performance of the proposed implementation was evaluated and benchmarked against some recent works.

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    Kok Choong Lai, M. L. Dennis Wong & Syed Zahidul Islam

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Lai, K.C., Dennis Wong, M.L., Islam, S.Z. (2013). A HW/SW Co-Design Implementation of Viola-Jones Algorithm for Driver Drowsiness Detection. In: Jung, HK., Kim, J., Sahama, T., Yang, CH. (eds) Future Information Communication Technology and Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 235. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6516-0_46

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