An Experimental System Development for Head Posture Estimation Based on 3-D Images Measurement

Chen Xu; Cunwei Lu

doi:10.4236/jcc.2014.22011

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An Experimental System Development for Head Posture Estimation Based on 3-D Images Measurement ()

Chen Xu, Cunwei Lu

Department of Information Electronics, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan..

DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2014.22011 PDF HTML 2,503 Downloads 3,751 Views

Abstract

Although automobile is an indispensable vehicle to modern life, it also serves as a social problem with a big traffic accident. Among the reasons of traffic accidents, careless driving accounts for the largest part. So in order to avoid the careless driving, a system which can measure the posture of a driver and warns driver to drive carefully in the case of looking aside is necessary. Although the image measurement method is used broadly, there is a problem on which measurement accuracy is influenced by environment light, makeup of the driver, etc. in the general method based on the two-dimensional image. Therefore, in this study, we propose an image measurement method to obtain the head posture of driver. First we use three-dimensional measurement method which based on the infrared pattern projection to get 3-D information of head, and then we calculate the angle for faces. In this paper, we explain the composition method of an experiment system, and the results of head posture measurement experiment.

Keywords

Careless Driving; 3-D Image Measurement; Infrared Pattern Projection; Head Posture Estimation

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Xu, C. and Lu, C. (2014) An Experimental System Development for Head Posture Estimation Based on 3-D Images Measurement. Journal of Computer and Communications, 2, 57-63. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2014.22011.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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