Driver Monitoring System for Motor Vehicle

automotive
driver-monitoring
A camera-based driver monitoring system that uses a neural network to determine driver attentiveness from face position, gaze direction, and arm/hand pose, enabling partially automated longitudinal and lateral vehicle guidance.
Authors

Sebastian Schneider

Luca Parolini

Goran Petrovic

Published year

2021

Inventors
Sebastian Schneider, Luca Parolini, Goran Petrovic
Patent no.
Assignee
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

Abstract

A motor vehicle configured to take over at least partially automated transverse and/or longitudinal guidance is provided with a camera system that acquires image data of the driver and a connected driver monitoring system. The monitoring system determines the driver’s level of attention by extracting face position, gaze direction, and arm and hand pose from the camera images as inputs to an artificial neural network, which then estimates the driver’s attentiveness based on these inputs.

Filings

Jurisdiction Kind Application / Publication no. Date
DE Application DE102021101805.6 2021-01-27
DE Publication (A1) DE102021101805A1 2022-07-28

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