A REAL-TIME DEVELOPMENT OF DROWSINESS DETECTION AND ALERT

SYSTEM USING FACE RECOGNITION WITH THE PRESENCE OF ALCOHOL

A.Y 2022 – 2023

A research presented to the faculty of

College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology,

Capiz State University,

Fuentes Drive, Roxas City,

In Partial Fulfillment for the subject

Science, Technology and Society

ARCHES, LAIKA MAE M.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

MARCH 2023
 Introduction

This research aims to determine the development of technologies for preventing

drowsiness of the driver and alcohol detection system using the methods of sensors. The

automatic drowsy driver monitoring and accident prevention system that is based on monitoring

the changes in the eye blink duration. The solution focuses on computer vision systems that can

detect and recognize the facial motion and appearance changes occurring during drowsiness. In

this study, the researchers propose a non-contact method to detect the level of the driver’s

fatigue. The method employs the use of only the vehicle mounted camera, making it unnecessary

for the driver to carry any on/in-body devices. Our design uses each frame image to analyze and

detect the driver’s state.

Sleeping is one of the basic needs of the human being, sleep lack causes the body to react

inefficiently, reducing both reaction time and wakefulness, also produce low alertness and lose

of concentration which reduces the ability to perform activities based on care that is necessary in

the case of driving a car (E. E. Galarza & Fabricio D. 2018).

On a survey that has been done recently, said that nearly 70% of road accidents occur due

to drunken drive, with a range of 44% to 67% in small cities. There happens to occur lot of road

accidents, due to drunken driving and rash driving. (Malathi, M., Sujitha, R., & Revathy, M. R.,

2017). Traffic accidents due to human errors cause many deaths and injuries around the world.

Drowsiness is a condition which diminishes the awareness caused by the absence or state with a

tendency to fall asleep or weariness. Because of weariness, driver lose their control which may

divert them from the street and prompts serious mishaps. Basically these mishaps may because

of the driver tired condition. Driving continuously for quite a while prompts tiredness and make

them to lost their awareness. Due to substantial increment in the number of mischances day by

day which makes a major issue (L. Ramesh & M. Monisha, 2017).

According to the National Sleep Foundation, about half of U.S. adult drivers admit to

consistently getting behind the wheel while feeling drowsy. About 20% admit to falling asleep

behind the wheel at some point in the past year – with more than 40% admitting this has

happened at least once in their driving careers. These startling figures show how prevalent

drowsy driving is. What drivers may not realize is how much drowsy driving puts 3 themselves –
and others – at risk. In fact, an estimated 5,000 people died in 2015 in crashes involving drowsy

driving, according to a Governors Highway Safety Association report (ncs.org, 2020).