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Distracted Driver Detection: Deep Learning vs Handcrafted Features
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.10.IMAWM-162  Published OnlineJanuary 2017
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, one in ten fatal crashes and two in ten injury crashes were reported as distracted driver accidents in the United State during 2014. In an attempt to mitigate these alarming statistics, this paper explores using a dashboard camera along with computer vision and machine learning to automatically detect distracted drivers. We consider a dataset that incorporates drivers engaging in seven different distracting behaviors using left and/or right hands. Traditional handcrafted features paired with a Support Vector Machine classifier are contrasted with deep Convolutional Neural Networks. The traditional features include a blend of Histogram of Oriented Gradients and Scale-Invariant Feature Transform descriptors used to create Bags of Words. The deep convolutional methods use transfer learning on AlexNet, VGG-16, and ResNet-152. The results yield 85% accuracy with ResNet and 82.5% accuracy with VGG-16, which outperformed AlexNet by almost 10%. Replacing the fully connected layers by a Support Vector Machine classifier did not improve the classification accuracy. The traditional features yielded much lower accuracy than the deep convolutional networks.

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Murtadha D Hssayeni, Sagar Saxena, Raymond Ptucha, Andreas Savakis, "Distracted Driver Detection: Deep Learning vs Handcrafted Featuresin Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Imaging and Multimedia Analytics in a Web and Mobile World,  2017,  pp 20 - 26,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2017.10.IMAWM-162

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