A System for Automated Analysis of Driver Glance Videos

ImageCorp, Inc. and its subcontractor M-Vision, Inc. propose to design and conduct a feasibility study of a machine vision system dedicated to the automatic analysis of the drivers¿ glancing direction. This system will be able to determine the beginning and end of the glancing activity in the video sequence, indexed by the subject (functional area of interest), duration, and direction of glance. Using advanced machine vision techniques, glance video indexing and analysis tasks will be performed automatically, and with enhanced speed and accuracy. We expect that with the use of automated video processing tools, an hour of video with over 100000 frames can be condensed into less than 500 key frames summarizing the beginning and end of the glancing activity and indexed by the nature, duration and direction of glance.