Title: Developing a method to detect driver drowsiness based on a single EEG channel and discriminated features

Authors: Raed Mohammed Hussein; Loay E. George; Firas Sabar Miften

Addresses: Iraqi Commission for Computers and Informatics, Informatics Institute of Postgraduate Studies, Baghdad, Iraq ' Computer Sciences Department, University of Information Technology and Communication, Baghdad, Iraq ' Computer Sciences Department, College of Education for Pure Science, University of Thi-Qar, Thi-Qar, Iraq

Abstract: Driver drowsiness is one of the leading causes of road deaths and transportation industry dangers. Due to its direct evaluation of neurophysiological brain activity, electroencephalography (EEG) has been regarded as one of the most reliable physiological indicators for identifying driver drowsiness. This study proposes a straightforward, cost-effective method for detecting driver drowsiness using a single channel. The contribution of this research is the discovery of drowsiness using discriminated features [moments features (M1, M2, M3, M4), roughness features (R1, R2, R3, R4), zero crossing rate (ZCR), sample entropy (SE) and median absolute deviation (MAD)] from publicly available datasets. A novel model was introduced in this study, which involved the fusion of wavelet transform Daubechies order 4 (WTDB4) and residue decomposition (RD) techniques for feature extraction. Various classification algorithms, including the least-square support vector machine (LSSVM) and ensemble models were compared in terms of their performance metrics. The algorithm that exhibited superior accuracy with reduced computational time was chosen to classify the driver's status into two groups: awake and drowsy. Notably, the proposed model achieved an impressive accuracy of 97.95%.

Keywords: drowsy driving detection; electroencephalography; least square support vector machine; residue decomposition; wavelet transform.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2024.136521

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2024 Vol.22 No.1, pp.29 - 40

Received: 30 Jul 2023
Accepted: 19 Sep 2023
Published online: 05 Feb 2024 *

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