Digital Dashboard Device Detects Driver Drowsiness 117
Pickens writes "Science Daily Headlines reports that researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology have developed a self-contained, dashboard-mounted assistant system that tracks a driver's eye movements and issues a warning before the driver has an opportunity to nod off to sleep. 'What we have developed is a small modular system with its own hardware and programs on board, so that the line of vision is computed directly within the camera itself,' says Professor Husar. 'Since the Eyetracker is fitted with at least two cameras that record images stereoscopically — meaning in three dimensions — the system can easily identify the spatial position of the pupil and the line of vision.' The cameras, which can be installed in any model of car, evaluate up to 200 images per second to identify the line of vision. If the camera modules detect that the eye is closed for longer than a user-defined interval, it sounds an alarm. The Eyetracker also has applications in computer games where players could look around themselves without requiring a joystick to change their viewing direction, and in marketing and advertising, where researchers could determine which parts of a poster or advertising spot receive longer attention from their viewers."
Dormant D Device Disturbed Drilling Dentist. (Score:3, Funny)
I think the title has only got Ds in it.
nice alliteration (Score:4, Funny)
Pretty neat, however.. (Score:2, Funny)
Awesome title (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dormant D Device Disturbed Drilling Dentist. (Score:5, Funny)
Do Dying Drivers Defy Death Deploying Drowsiness Device?
Great for congestion (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who cares about the article's content... (Score:4, Funny)
Don't disregard delving deeply despite distracting descriptors.
Re:Dormant D Device Disturbed Drilling Dentist. (Score:5, Funny)
Damn.
Re:Pretty neat, however.. (Score:2, Funny)
Corey
Game applications. (Score:2, Funny)
Substandard performance. (Score:3, Funny)
I give it a D.