FOREWORD The purpose of this report is to document the results of a study undertaken to characterize episodes of driver fatigue and drowsiness and to assess the impact of driver fatigue on driving performance. This data mining effort performed additional analyses on the data collected in an earlier Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) study of the effects of fatigue on drivers in...

Today most accidents are caused by drivers’ fatigue, drowsiness and losing attention on the road ahead. In this paper, a system is introduced, using RGB-D cameras to automatically identify drowsiness and give warning. In this system two important modules have been utilized simultaneously to identify the state of driver’s mouth and eyes for detecting drowsiness. At first, using the depth informa...

Advancements in globalization have significantly seen a rise road travel. This has also led to increased car accidents and fatalities, which become global cause of concern. Driver's behavior, including drowsiness, contributes many the deaths. The main objective this study is develop system diminish mishaps caused by driver's drowsiness. Recently deep convolutional neural networks been used mult...

AIM OSAS is a disease characterized by repetitive air flow constraint or cessation due to airway collapse. Diseases that frequently coexist with OSAS and simple snoring were evaluated in this study. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted in the Otorhinolaryngology Department of the Ankara Numune Hospital between April 2008 and April 2010 with 130 patients who presented with the compla...