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CarSafe (MobiSys 2013)
1. CarSafe
Alerting Drowsy and Distracted
Drivers using Dual Cameras on
Smartphones
Chuang-Wen (Bing) You, Nicholas D. Lane,
Fanglin Chen, Rui Wang, Zhenyu Chen, Thomas J.
Bao, Martha Montes-de-Oca, Yuting Cheng, Mu
Lin,
Lorenzo Torresani, Andrew T. Campbell
0
8. CarSafe
Dual-camera app
What are detected:
1) The following distances
2) Lane trajectory categories
What are detected:
1) Face directions
2) Eye states
What are detected:
1) Speed
2) Turns
3) Lane trajectory categories
GPS
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
10. Limited dual camera access
`
`
A blind spot in the front
Time
A blind spot in the back
Back camera
Switching delay
Front camera
11. Switching delay & frame processing time
About 500 ms ~ 3 seconds
Overhead
About 50 ms ~ 2 seconds
Switching delay
(Front-Back (ms))
Switching delay
(Back-Front (ms))
Frame processing time
(Face detection (ms))
Nokia Lumia
804
2856.3
2032.5
Samsung Galaxy S3
519
774
301.2
HTC One X
1030
939
680.3
iPhone 4S
446
503
70.92
iPhone 5
467
529
58.48
Model
12. Challenges for real-time processing of dual
camera video streams on smartphones
• Limited dual-camera access
Camera switching algorithm
• Events occurring in blind spots
Sensor fusion techniques to
provide blind spot hints
Adapt existing vision algorithms
• Varying mobile environment
• Real-time performance
Utilize multicore computation
resources
14. CarSafe architecture
Driver, road, & car classification pipelines
The Overview of CarSafe
alerts
user interface
dangerous driving conditions
dangerous driving event engine
driver states
road conditions
car events
multicore computation planner
driver classification pipeline
road classification pipeline
car classification pipeline
front/back images lane proximity blind spot hints
context-driven camera switching
front images
front-facing
camera
back images
back-facing
camera
sensor
readings
GPS, accel, gyr
GPS, accel,
gyro & compass
o & compass
15. Driver classification pipeline
Eye state classification
Driver Classification Pipeline
{closed, open}
Frontal face
detection
- Haar-like feature
- Adaboost classifier
for frontal faces
Eye region
estimation
- Active shape model
Eye center
localization
- Gradient-based
approach
Eye state
classification
- SURF features
- SVM classifier
16. Driver classification pipeline
Face directionClassification Pipeline
Driver classification
facing.right
Frontal face detection
- Haar-like feature
- Adaboost classifier
for frontal faces
Side face detection
- Haar-like feature
- Adaboost classifier
for side faces
Face direction
classification
- Left face facing right
- Right face facing left
17. Road classification pipeline
Lane trajectory detection
Lane crossing events
Decision tree
Crossing
Lane marker detection
Lane crossing detection
Lane
change
Lane
weaving
Trajectory
classification
18. Road classification pipeline
Following distance estimation
Image plane
N
M
d1
M
Focal point (F)
d2
f
N
R
Road surface
Car recognition
- Haar-like feature
- Adaboost classifier for cars
Z1
S
Z2
Distance estimation
- Pin-hole camera projection
19. Road classification pipeline
Speed, turn, and trajectory inferences
GPS samples
θ2
Inertial sensor readings
d3
θ1
d2
Multi-variate Gaussian
d1
Lane change / weaving
class
Speed estimation & Turn
turn
detection
Other class
Trajectory classification
- Provide as blind spot hints
20. CarSafe architecture
Dangerous driving eventof CarSafe
The Overview engine
alerts
user interface
dangerous driving conditions
dangerous driving event engine
driver states
road conditions
car events
multicore computation planner
driver classification pipeline
road classification pipeline
car classification pipeline
front/back images lane proximity blind spot hints
context-driven camera switching
front images
front-facing
camera
back images
back-facing
camera
sensor
readings
GPS, accel, gyr
GPS, accel,
o & compass
gyro & compass
21. Dangerous driving event engine
Dangerous Driving Event Engine
•
Drowsy Driving
– Measuring alertness, PERcentage of CLOSure of the eyelid (PERCLOS), and declares the
driver “drowsy” if PERCLOS exceeds a threshold
•
Inattentive Driving
– Not facing forward for longer than 3 seconds while the car is moving forward
•
Tailgating
– The safe following distance is not respected for a period longer than 3 seconds
•
Lane Weaving and Drifting
– The classifier infers lane weaving continuously for longer than 2 seconds
•
Careless Lane Change
– No head turn corresponding to a lane change event
Drowsy driving
Inattentive driving
Tailgating
Lane weaving
Careless lane change
22. CarSafe Architecture
Context-driven camera switching
The Overview of CarSafe
alerts
user interface
dangerous driving conditions
dangerous driving event engine
driver states
road conditions
car events
multicore computation planner
driver classification pipeline
road classification pipeline
car classification pipeline
front/back images lane proximity blind spot hints
context-driven camera switching
front images
front-facing
camera
back images
back-facing
camera
sensor
readings
GPS, accel, gyr
o & compass
23. Context-driven camera switching
Scheduled switching
Predict when to switch based on
current context (PERCLOS, speed
or following distance)
Tb
Tf
Tf
Time
Front camera
Back camera
Switching delay
24. Context-driven camera switching
Pre-emptive switching
Pre-empted by blind spot hints or lane proximity information
Original
switching point
Tf
Tf
Tb
Time
Pre-empted by a
blind spot hint
Front camera
Back camera
Switching delay
25. CarSafe architecture
Multicore computation planner
The Overview of CarSafe
alerts
user interface
dangerous driving conditions
dangerous driving event engine
driver states
road conditions
car events
multicore computation planner
driver classification pipeline
road classification pipeline
car classification pipeline
front/back images lane proximity blind spot hints
context-driven camera switching
back images
front images
front-facing
camera
back-facing
camera
sensor
readings
GPS, accel, gyr
o & compass
26. Multicore computation planner
Multi-core Computation Planner
• Leverage the multicore architecture of new smartphones to
perform classification
queue manager
dispatcher
drop outdated
frames
demultiplexer
events
27. CarSafe architecture
User interface
alerts
user interface
dangerous driving conditions
dangerous driving event engine
driver states
road conditions
car events
multicore computation planner
driver classification pipeline
road classification pipeline
car classification pipeline
front/back images lane proximity blind spot hints
context-driven camera switching
front images
front-facing
camera
back images
back-facing
camera
sensor
readings
GPS, accel, gyr
o & compass
30. Evaluation
Evaluation
• Demonstrate CarSafe under real-world
conditions where people use the application
in the wild
– Overall accuracies of CarSafe & individual
pipelines
– Effectiveness of the context-driven camera
switching
– Performance improvement of the multicore
computation planner
31. Data collection
Data Collection
• Collecting datasets to adequately evaluate CarSafe
is challenging
• Two distinct experiments and datasets
– 12 participants (11 males and 1 female)
• Controlled car maneuvers (6 males)
• Normal daily driving (5 males and 1 female)
• Manually labeled dangerous driving events
33. Overall accuracy for detecting low-level events
# of true
positives
Event
# of false
positives
# of ground
truth
Precision
Recall
Part 1: events detected from the driver classifier
facing.right
21
10
31
0.68
0.68
facing.left
23
6
26
0.79
0.88
Part 2: events detected from the road classifier
lane.change
21
1
24
0.95
0.88
lane.weaving
16
2
22
1.00
0.73
Part 3: events detected from the car classifier
turn.right
31
0
35
1.00
0.89
turn.left
22
2
25
0.92
0.88
Overall
-
-
-
0.89
0.82
34. Overall accuracy for classifying lane trajectory
events
• Mean precision and recall are 84% and 76%
respectively
Detected
# of data segments
Real
Lane change /
weaving
Other
Lane change /
weaving
190
30
Other
109
1127
35. Effectiveness of the context-driven camera
switching
• Compare carsafe to a static strategy (baseline)
• carsafe outperforms baseline
The optimal
parameter setting
baseline
carsafe
38. Related work
Related Work
Cost
Fixed vehiclemounted devices
$$
Device
Detected event
Fixed cameras
Driver drowsiness, Lane departure,
or following distance
Cameras,
radar, and
ultrasonic sensors
Collision avoidance, night vision,
and pedestrian detection
Top-end cars
$$$$
Existing phonebased systems
$
Smartphones
Collision & off-road warnings
$
Dual-camera
Smartphones
Drowsy driving, inattentive
driving, tailgating, lane weaving,
and careless lane change
CarSafe
40. Conclusion
Conclusion
• Propose the design and implementation of CarSafe and
evaluate CarSafe in a small field trial
• Explore how to design computation-intensive mobile apps
– Where are the performance bottlenecks?
• Apply and tune vision algorithms for mobile sensing apps
– How well existing vision algorithms can achieve under varying mobile
settings?
• Our future plans
– Improve the current prototype
– Test CarSafe on other phone models or platforms
• Stimulate dual camera app interest
– Encourage major platform vendors to solve this dual camera problem