This paper describes our effort to add a vision system to the safe driving management system for performance enhancement. The safe driving management system monitors driver behavior, detects dangerous driving situations, and manages driving data effec...
This paper describes our effort to add a vision system to the safe driving management system for performance enhancement. The safe driving management system monitors driver behavior, detects dangerous driving situations, and manages driving data effectively. A driving simulator has been used to evaluate effectiveness of the vision system in a laboratory environment. A low-cost CCD camera was placed on the roof of the driving simulator cabin. An image processing algorithm was developed to detect lanes and vehicles generated by computer graphics and displayed on a screen. The detection results of lane position, vehicle position and relative distance were combined with the dangerous driving detection algorithm to evaluate driver behavior more accurately. A case study on sudden stop and sudden lane change situations demonstrated the effectiveness of the vision system. The next step would be to test the vision system in a real driving environment.