Abstract-- Detecting driver drowsiness reliably is crucial for enhancing road safety and supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). We introduce the Eyelid Angle (ELA), a novel, reproducible metric of eye openness derived from 3D facial landmarks. Unlike conventional binary eye state estimators or 2D measures, such as the Eye Aspect Ratio (EAR), the ELA provides a stable geometric description of eyelid motion that is robust to variations in camera angle. Using the ELA, we design a blink detection framework that extracts temporal characteristics, including the closing, closed, and reopening durations, which are shown to correlate with drowsiness levels. T o address the scarcity and risk of collecting natural drowsiness data, we further leverage ELA signals to animate rigged avatars in Blender 3D, enabling the creation of realistic synthetic datasets with controllable noise, camera viewpoints, and blink dynamics. Experimental results in public driver monitoring datasets demonstrate that the ELA offers lower variance under viewpoint changes compared to EAR and achieves accurate blink detection. At the same time, synthetic augmentation expands the diversity of training data for drowsiness recognition. Our findings highlight the ELA as both a reliable biometric measure and a powerful tool for generating scalable datasets in driver state monitoring. URL: The link with the code will be made publicly available upon acceptance.

Autonomous driving and V2X technologies have developed rapidly in the past decade, leading to improved safety and efficiency in modern transportation. These systems interact with extensive networks of vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and cloud resources to support their machine learning capabilities. However, the widespread use of machine learning in V2X systems raises issues over the privacy of the data involved. This is particularly concerning for smart-transit and driver safety applications which can implicitly reveal user locations or explicitly disclose medical data such as EEG signals. To resolve these issues, we propose SecureV2X, a scalable, multi-agent system for secure neural network inferences deployed between the server and each vehicle. Under this setting, we study two multi-agent V2X applications: secure drowsiness detection, and secure red-light violation detection. Our system achieves strong performance relative to baselines, and scales efficiently to support a large number of secure computation interactions simultaneously. For instance, SecureV2X is $9.4 \times$ faster, requires $143\times$ fewer computational rounds, and involves $16.6\times$ less communication on drowsiness detection compared to other secure systems. Moreover, it achieves a runtime nearly $100\times$ faster than state-of-the-art benchmarks in object detection tasks for red light violation detection.

In this study, we present a comprehensive public dataset for driver drowsiness detection, integrating multimodal signals of facial, behavioral, and biometric indicators. Our dataset includes 3D facial video using a depth camera, IR camera footage, posterior videos, and biometric signals such as heart rate, electrodermal activity, blood oxygen saturation, skin temperature, and accelerometer data. This data set provides grip sensor data from the steering wheel and telemetry data from the American truck simulator game to provide more information about drivers' behavior while they are alert and drowsy. Drowsiness levels were self-reported every four minutes using the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS). The simulation environment consists of three monitor setups, and the driving condition is completely like a car. Data were collected from 19 subjects (15 M, 4 F) in two conditions: when they were fully alert and when they exhibited signs of sleepiness. Unlike other datasets, our multimodal dataset has a continuous duration of 40 minutes for each data collection session per subject, contributing to a total length of 1,400 minutes, and we recorded gradual changes in the driver state rather than discrete alert/drowsy labels. This study aims to create a comprehensive multimodal dataset of driver drowsiness that captures a wider range of physiological, behavioral, and driving-related signals. The dataset will be available upon request to the corresponding author.

In this paper, a novel dual-sensing driver fatigue detection method combining computer vision and physiological signal analysis is proposed. The system exploits the complementary advantages of the two sensing modalities and breaks through the limitations of existing single-modality methods. We introduce an innovative architecture that combines real-time facial feature analysis with physiological signal processing, combined with advanced fusion strategies, for robust fatigue detection. The system is designed to run efficiently on existing hardware while maintaining high accuracy and reliability. Through comprehensive experiments, we demonstrate that our method outperforms traditional methods in both controlled environments and real-world conditions, while maintaining high accuracy. The practical applicability of the system has been verified through extensive tests in various driving scenarios and shows great potential in reducing fatigue-related accidents. This study contributes to the field by providing a more reliable, cost-effective, and humane solution for driver fatigue detection.

--Driver fatigue poses a significant challenge to railway safety, with traditional systems like the dead-man switch offering limited and basic alertness checks. This study presents an online behavior-based monitoring system utilizing a cus-tomised Directed-Graph Neural Network (DGNN) to classify train driver's states into three categories: alert, not alert, and pathological. T o optimize input representations for the model, an ablation study was performed, comparing three feature configurations: skeletal-only, facial-only, and a combination of both. Experimental results show that combining facial and skeletal features yields the highest accuracy (80.88%) in the three-class model, outperforming models using only facial or skeletal features. Furthermore, this combination achieves over 99% accuracy in the binary alertness classification. Additionally, we introduced a novel dataset that, for the first time, incorporates simulated pathological conditions into train driver monitoring, broadening the scope for assessing risks related to fatigue and health. This work represents a step forward in enhancing railway safety through advanced online monitoring using vision-based technologies. Fatigue is a critical safety concern in railway operations, where long shifts and repetitive activities can significantly impair a driver's alertness [1]. Despite regulations aimed at ensuring adequate rest for train drivers, fatigue-related incidents remain alarmingly common. According to research by the AA Charitable Trust, one in eight drivers admits to falling asleep at the wheel, while nearly two-fifths have felt so tired that they feared they might nod off [2]. The risk is particularly high with modern automated trains operating on night shifts and monotonous routes [3].

Road safety remains a critical challenge worldwide, with approximately 1.35 million fatalities annually attributed to traffic accidents, often due to human errors. As we advance towards higher levels of vehicle automation, challenges still exist, as driving with automation can cognitively over-demand drivers if they engage in non-driving-related tasks (NDRTs), or lead to drowsiness if driving was the sole task. This calls for the urgent need for an effective Driver Monitoring System (DMS) that can evaluate cognitive load and drowsiness in SAE Level-2/3 autonomous driving contexts. In this study, we propose a novel multi-task DMS, termed VDMoE, which leverages RGB video input to monitor driver states non-invasively. By utilizing key facial features to minimize computational load and integrating remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) for physiological insights, our approach enhances detection accuracy while maintaining efficiency. Additionally, we optimize the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework to accommodate multi-modal inputs and improve performance across different tasks. A novel prior-inclusive regularization method is introduced to align model outputs with statistical priors, thus accelerating convergence and mitigating overfitting risks. We validate our method with the creation of a new dataset (MCDD), which comprises RGB video and physiological indicators from 42 participants, and two public datasets. Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of VDMoE in monitoring driver states, contributing to safer autonomous driving systems. The code and data will be released.

Ensuring driver readiness poses challenges, yet driver monitoring systems can assist in determining the driver's state. By observing visual cues, such systems recognize various behaviors and associate them with specific conditions. For instance, yawning or eye blinking can indicate driver drowsiness. Consequently, an abundance of distributed data is generated for driver monitoring. Employing machine learning techniques, such as driver drowsiness detection, presents a potential solution. However, transmitting the data to a central machine for model training is impractical due to the large data size and privacy concerns. Conversely, training on a single vehicle would limit the available data and likely result in inferior performance. To address these issues, we propose a federated learning framework for drowsiness detection within a vehicular network, leveraging the YawDD dataset. Our approach achieves an accuracy of 99.2%, demonstrating its promise and comparability to conventional deep learning techniques. Lastly, we show how our model scales using various number of federated clients

- Background / Introduction: Driver drowsiness is a significant concern and one of the leading causes of traffic accidents. Advances in cognitive neuroscience and computer science have enabled the detection of drivers' drowsiness using Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Machine Learning (ML). However, the literature lacks a comprehensive evaluation of drowsiness detection performance using a heterogeneous set of ML algorithms, and it is necessary to study the performance of scalable ML models suitable for groups of subjects. - Methods: To address these limitations, this work presents an intelligent framework employing BCIs and features based on electroencephalography for detecting drowsiness in driving scenarios. The SEED-VIG dataset is used to evaluate the best-performing models for individual subjects and groups. - Results: Results show that Random Forest (RF) outperformed other models used in the literature, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), with a 78% f1-score for individual models. Regarding scalable models, RF reached a 79% f1-score, demonstrating the effectiveness of these approaches. This publication highlights the relevance of exploring a diverse set of ML algorithms and scalable approaches suitable for groups of subjects to improve drowsiness detection systems and ultimately reduce the number of accidents caused by driver fatigue. - Conclusions: The lessons learned from this study show that not only SVM but also other models not sufficiently explored in the literature are relevant for drowsiness detection. Additionally, scalable approaches are effective in detecting drowsiness, even when new subjects are evaluated. Thus, the proposed framework presents a novel approach for detecting drowsiness in driving scenarios using BCIs and ML.

Drowsy driving has a crucial influence on driving safety, creating an urgent demand for driver drowsiness detection. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal can accurately reflect the mental fatigue state and thus has been widely studied in drowsiness monitoring. However, the raw EEG data is inherently noisy and redundant, which is neglected by existing works that just use single-channel EEG data or full-head channel EEG data for model training, resulting in limited performance of driver drowsiness detection. In this paper, we are the first to propose an Interpretability-guided Channel Selection (ICS) framework for the driver drowsiness detection task. Specifically, we design a two-stage training strategy to progressively select the key contributing channels with the guidance of interpretability. We first train a teacher network in the first stage using full-head channel EEG data. Then we apply the class activation mapping (CAM) to the trained teacher model to highlight the high-contributing EEG channels and further propose a channel voting scheme to select the top N contributing EEG channels. Finally, we train a student network with the selected channels of EEG data in the second stage for driver drowsiness detection. Experiments are designed on a public dataset, and the results demonstrate that our method is highly applicable and can significantly improve the performance of cross-subject driver drowsiness detection.

Drowsy driving is a major cause of road accidents, but drivers are dismissive of the impact that fatigue can have on their reaction times. To detect drowsiness before any impairment occurs, a promising strategy is using Machine Learning (ML) to monitor Heart Rate Variability (HRV) signals. This work presents multiple experiments with different HRV time windows and ML models, a feature impact analysis using Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP), and an adversarial robustness analysis to assess their reliability when processing faulty input data and perturbed HRV signals. The most reliable model was Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) and the optimal time window had between 120 and 150 seconds. Furthermore, SHAP enabled the selection of the 18 most impactful features and the training of new smaller models that achieved a performance as good as the initial ones. Despite the susceptibility of all models to adversarial attacks, adversarial training enabled them to preserve significantly higher results, especially XGB. Therefore, ML models can significantly benefit from realistic adversarial training to provide a more robust driver drowsiness detection.