Dynamic Visual Measurement of Driver Eye Movements

Sensors (Basel). 2019 May 14;19(10):2217. doi: 10.3390/s19102217.

Abstract

Vibrations often cause visual fatigue for drivers, and measuring the relative motion between the driver and the display is important for evaluating this visual fatigue. This paper proposes a non-contact videometric measurement method for studying the three-dimensional trajectories of the driver's eyes based on stereo vision. The feasibility of this method is demonstrated by dynamic calibration. A high-speed dual-camera image acquisition system is used to obtain high-definition images of the face, and the relative trajectories between the eyes and the display are obtained by a set of robust algorithms. The trajectories of the eyes in three-dimensional space are then reconstructed during the vehicle driving process. This new approach provides three-dimensional information and is effective for assessing how vibration affects human visual performance.

Keywords: construction of three-dimensional trajectories; dynamic visual measurement; human eye tracking; visual fatigue.

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Traffic
  • Algorithms
  • Attention / physiology*
  • Automobile Driving*
  • Eye Movements / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Ocular Physiological Phenomena
  • Vision, Ocular / physiology*