COMPUSOFT, An international journal of advanced computer technology, 3 (11), November-2014 (Volume-III, Issue-XI)

ISSN:2320-0790

I-Blink: Drowsiness Detection and Warning System

O.M.B Jayasundera1, M.D.A Kavindya2, T.L Guruge3, D.W Senevirathne4 and Y. Jayaweera5
Faculty of computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Metro Campus, Colombo 03,
Sri Lanaka
Abstract: This research paper sees the sights of the scope which drivers could be able to warn for the cause of eye
drowsiness. Vehicle accidents caused by driver inattention marks a significant increase all over the country with the
development of technology and growth of human population. Drowsiness is a key factor of driver distraction and
numbers of traffic accidents were caused by driver drowsiness. Even though several drowsiness detection systems
can be seen currently in Sri Lanka, and the implemented system; i-Blink: Drowsiness Detection and Warning
System has targeted specifically to ease the process and to reduce the difficulty for the users. As Sri Lanka is a
developing country, some of the technologies which are in use internationally would be inflexible to adapt in terms
of usability and the implementation cost. This research aims to introduce a system which overcomes the above
mentioned constraints in Sri Lanka and a system which is affordable to almost every driver. It will also be a
noteworthy and a timely asset for the drivers when considering the number of fatal accidents caused by drowsiness.
The proposed system would be eligible to keep the driver alerted and conscious by delivering an effective real time
alarm, saving the life of drivers as well as the lives of the pedestrians.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Keywords: Drowsiness, Driver distraction, Drowsiness detection systems, Real time alarm, Image processing
probability of road accidents goes high. Drowsiness
INTRODUCTION
The number of human causations make happen by
related accidents appear to be more severe, possibly
vehicle accidents is a major concern on todays
because of the higher speeds involved, distraction
world. These happen on most factors if the driver is
and the driver being unable to take any avoiding
drowsy or if he is intoxicating. Therefore driver
action, or even brake, prior to the accident.
drowsiness is recognized as an important factor in the
vehicle accidents and distraction due to drowsiness of
A) Research problem to be addressed
drivers can be identified as the main cause for driver
In Sri Lanka throughout past few years, the
inattention. Drowsiness is unforeseen, unavoidable
Government implemented many programs to reduce
and beyond the control of the driver. Stress, illnesses,
road traffic accident fatalities and serious injuries and
certain type of medicines, repetitive driving and
of course Sri Lanka has its own set of issues to
liquor can make the driver drowsy. Sleepiness
address in road safety. However drowsiness can be
increases reaction time which is critical in driving.
taken as the unescapable and hard cause to being
With the help of the advanced technology, a way of
avoided when it comes to road accidents. In that case,
reducing the number of accidents can be offered to
the need of a drowsiness detection system is required
some extent.
for drivers. Many researchers have been conducted
all over the word on driver drowsiness detection
Road accidents in Sri Lanka cause economic losses
systems on various aspects and in various angles and
worth around Rs.9.34 billion each year. It can be seen
in Sri Lanka, it is significantly a less amount.
there are about 2,400 road deaths every year which is
one death every four hours approximately. Among
Though there driver inattention systems which comes
them, 82% - 85% are males. It has been calculated
along with high end luxurious vehicles, not all can
around 20% of traffic accidents with driver fatalities
afford that state of a vehicle as Sri Lanka is yet a
are caused by driver distraction and drowsiness. It
developing country. Adding to the problem, the
was revealed that driving performance rapidly drop
existing systems use heavy equipment such as
with increased drowsiness with resulting accidents
external cameras, mini computers etc. for the process
creating more than 20% of all vehicle accidents. Less
and they are with high cost in purchasing and
attention leads the driver to being distracted and the

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maintenance. Convenience is a matter of fact when

fixing heavy equipment to a vehicle.

face detection. It contains number of features of the

face. It is constructed by using a number of positive
and negative samples. First load the cascade file.
Then pass the acquired frame to an edge detection
function, which detects all the possible objects of
different sizes in the frame. The output the edge
detector is stored in an array. Now, the output of the
edge detector is then compared with the cascade file
to identify the face in the frame. The eye detection
can be done by using the haarcascade file. By
extracting the pixel value of the eye region can detect
the drowsiness. If drowsiness is detected, a text
message is displayed along with triggering an audio
alarm [1].

LITERATURE REVIEW
I-blink is basically focused on detecting the driver
drowsiness. There are many existing systems and
researches conducted under drowsiness detection all
over the world and few in Sri Lanka. In the current
era, the road accidents have been increased because
of drivers inattention and combination of physical
and mental condition. It may cause regarding many
reasons. Among them human drowsiness gets a vital
place. There are many research projects done from
universities and other organizations, companies in
worldwide on drowsiness detection, warning and real
time alarming. These information gathering tasks
were directed at developing the best experimental
research plan for i-Blink-Drowsiness Detection and
Warning System. The following contains an
overview of past researches conducted by several
project teams.

b) Drowsiness detection system in Sri Lanka

Riyadisi is another drowsiness detection system
which has implemented in Sri Lanka. The system is a
real time automated noninvasive system which uses
computer vision and machine learning techniques to
detect driver drowsiness and distraction and then
alerts the driver appropriately. Riyadisi focused on
drivers eye-blinking rate, the yawning patterns and
the movements. They used IR camera to detect the
eye blinking patterns in order to analyze the blinking
rate of the eye and also to overcome the challenge of
different illumination conditions. They uses a video
stream to analyze the drowsiness condition. They use
visual cue based method to monitor the driver
attention. The issue of this method is the different
illumination condition to overcome this issue
Riyadisi uses an IR camera which works both day
and night [2].

a) Use of Haar Cascade Classifier

J. Suryaprasad et.al explains the way of face/eye
detection techniques using image processing in real
time. In this research, it further explains the way of
using the haarcascade samples and the differentiation
of eye blink and drowsy/fatigue detection. This paper
introduces a vision based technique to detect the
drowsiness. The major challenges are face detection,
Iris detection under various conditions and
developing the real time system.
There are 5 distinct modules which can be seen in
their system architecture. Video acquisition is
dividing in to frames, which are face detection, Eye
detection, and drowsiness detection. Camera and
audio alarm use as the hardware components. By
making use of the camera, they get the live video of
the driver and convert them into series of frames. By
taking on each frame provide but the frame grabber
and tries to detect the face of the driver. This is
achieved through set of pre-defined haarcascade
samples. The detection of the eye is making use of
the set of pre-defined haarcascade samples. By taking
consideration of eye states and the blinking rate
detects the function of driver drowsiness. Proposed
algorithm first get the video from the external
camera, then convert in to frames, then in order to
detect the eye and the face each frames extracted
from the video. In the face detection method has 2
important functions. Identifying the region of
interest, and detect the face using haarcascades. Open
CV by default expects a particular resolution of the
video that is being recorded. The face detection
achieved by making use of the haarcascade file for

c) Use of OpenCV in eye blink detection

D.Jayanthi and M.Bommy et.al, have proposed a
vision-based real-time driver fatigue detection system
based on eye-tracking. Face and eyes of the driver are
first contained and then marked in every frame
obtained from the video source. At first, an ordinary
color webcam is used to capture the images. The first
frame is used for initial face detection and eye
location. The live video is captured and stored in the
database. Current eye images are used as the dynamic
templates for eye tracking on subsequent frames. If
the process is fail, the face detection and eye location
restart on the current frame. After face detection has
been done the eyes are configured by giving the
control points around the eyes. The eye template is
then cropped and stored for the used dynamic
template matching method. If the eyes of the drivers
are closed at a certain time, then the driver is said to
be in fatigue state and an alarm is raised. After get
the eye templates, they have used gray scale
correlation over eye region to find the position of the
eye. However, there will be some false detection,

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where the results are not good when there is quick

head-movement [3].

to the template image and the Template image the

patch image which will be compared to the template
image. To identify the matching area, have to be
comparing the template image against the source
image by sliding. Sliding is moving the patch one
pixel at a time (left to right, up to down). At each
location, a metric is calculated .so it represents how
good or bad the match at that location is (or how
similar the patch is to that particular area of the
source image). The brightest locations indicate the
highest matches. Practically we use the function min
Max Loc to locate the highest value in a matrix.
OpenCV implements Template matching in the
function match Template. There are several method
for this. Some of them are,
1.method=CV_TM_SQDIFF
2.method=CV_TM_SQDIFF_NORMED
3.method=CV_TM_CCORR
4. method=CV_TM_CCORR_NORMED
5.method=CV_TM_CCOEFF
6.method=CV_TM_CCOEFF_NORMED

The proposed method was validated by tracking eye

position within high and low occlusion condition. In
this system use the connected component technique
and centroid method to track and blinking of eyes on
OpenCV platform. For that it captures the video from
camera. OpenCV supports capturing images from a
camera or a video file (AVI). First initialize the
capture from a camera by setting zero and frame
converted into Gray scale. Using OpenCV
conversion, convert color image into Gray scale
image. These images give as the binary image and
locate it using the centroid method. To find the
centroid of an image, the image first has to be
binaries and then centroid program will calculate the
process of the centroid. It looks like where the
majority of black pixels are located. After mark the
eye, it indicates with rectangle by using of the
connected component technique. Those values use as
parameters. If eyes are found during tracking then its
X and Y coordinates are detected by finding centroid
of contours. This gives the center coordinates of the
eye pupil. This method is for detection of eye
blinking. Based on blink detection it decides by that
whether driver is drowsy or active [4].

What template matching algorithm simply does is,

Loads an input image and the image patch (template)
.Then perform a template matching procedure by
using the OpenCV function match Template with the
above mentioned
6 matching methods. After
normalize the output of the matching procedure, and
then localize the location with higher matching
probability. Finally draw a rectangle around the area
corresponding to the highest match [6]. Whereas
W.O.A. Basir et.al describes interfering system used
to identify if the driver of the vehicle is sleepy and at
risk of falling asleep at the wheel due to drowsiness.
The system consist of two different sub-system and a
control unit. First sub system consists of sensors of
arrays placed in the vehicle seats. Second sub
systems consist of heart rate monitoring sensors
placed in the steering wheel. Control unit analyze the
sensory data to determine the drivers drowsiness
states [7].

d) Use of MATLAB software for image processing

M. Singh, and G. Kaur et.al, have introduced how the
drowsy driver detect by using an algorithm. This is
based on monitoring the changes in the eye blink
duration. The system detects eye blinks via a standard
webcam in real-time YUY2_640x480 resolution by
using mean shift algorithm. In this they got the value
of the eye closure percentage and the time for which
alarm driven, this is changed according to every
person, it set in the program. If the percentage
increases then the alarm goes off. In the image
processing approach analyze the image captured by
the camera to detect the physical changes of the
driver. They used MATLAB software and using
image processing system of MATLAB software they
measured the percentage of eyelid closure over the
pupil over time. As the output first one by blowing
alarm and second is graphical method to take a
record. The proposed system is independent from the
eye blinks duration as it works within the same
frame. The proposed system detects eye blinks with
99% accuracy and a 1% false positive rate [5].

f)

Use of PCA, LDA and external equipment in

blink detection
J.Jo,S. J.Lee, H.G. Jung, K.R.Park, J. Kim.,propose a
new driver monitoring method considering driver
drowsiness and distraction. If the driver is looking
ahead, drowsiness detection is performed; if not
distraction detection is performed. Secondly a new
eye-detection algorithm is introduced. It combines
adaptive boosting, adaptive template matching, and
blob detection with eye validation. Those algorithms
reduce the eye-detection error and processing time
significantly, by achieved the mentioned algorithms.
Third they have used principal component analysis
(PCA), and linear discriminate analysis (LDA) in

e) Use of template matching

Template matching is a technique for finding areas of
an image that match (are similar) to a template image
(patch).there are two image categories the Source
image the image in which we expect to find a match

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order to achieve accurate eye detection. Fourth, they

have proposed a novel eye statedetection algorithm
that combines appearance features obtained using
PCA and LDA, with statistical features such as the
sparseness and kurtosis of the histogram from the
horizontal edge image of the eye.
The proposed method consists of face-detection,
head orientationestimation, eye-detection, eye-state
detection, drowsiness-detection, and distractiondetection [8].

A. Research Gap
Significant number of literature reviews had been
reviewed by the research team of i-Blink in order to
find out the gap which has not been covered. Number
of developed drowsiness detection systems which
comes as factory fitted for high end luxury vehicles
can be seen and this technology does not come inbuilt
with other normal vehicles. Existing external warning
systems uses high and heavy technology where some
of the drivers might not be able to afford them and
the cost of maintenance is significantly high in such
systems. Need of an economical, convenient and
efficient system which most of the people can use or
afford will be the research gap which is looked upon
here in this research.
Usage of i-Blink is comparatively simpler in a high
degree and it is with less cost than the existing
systems which uses high technology and high end
devises. The system is developed to detect the human
eye blink and then to warn the drivers if a particular
driver is detected with drowsiness with the use of a
mobile application in the android platform.
METHODOLOGY
Various development methodologies can be
identified and used according to the specific nature of
the project. Each methodology is developed
considering the strengths, weaknesses and also their
benefits of using the particular adaptation. Out of
these methodologies, the team decided to go with
Prototype development method for the development
of i-Blink.

Figure 1: Flow of modules (Detailed)

The proposed system consists of two 850-nm
illuminators(LED 850-66-60) a camera (EC650)
having lens (ML 0614) of 6-mm focal length a
laboratory-made device for controlling the
illuminators, and a narrow band pass filter placed in
front of the camera. The system should work during
both daytime and nighttime. Because visible lights
can confuse drivers when driving, NIR illuminators
were used to capture images.

A. Planning
This was the phase where the development team
identified the need of I-Blink and the value which
will be gained by the use of the system. Objectives
and the basic functionalities that will come use from
I-Blink was clearly determined. Which are,
o
o
o
o

Face Detection
Eye Blink Detection
Warning the driver via an alarm
Sending an SMS

Figure 2: Devices attached

A series of feasibility analysis was carried out by the
team members to identify the risks, constraints and
whether to proceed with the project. Technical
feasibility was carried out to identify the risk
associate with the familiarity of the system.
Economic feasibility was performed in order to find
out the costs and benefits associated with i-Blink in
the long run. As a method of managing the control of
the project and the direction of the project, a proper a
Gantt chart was prepared.

Their eye-detection algorithm is developed by

combining eye adaboost, adaptive template matching,
blob detection, and eye validation. The adaboost
method has been widely adopted for detecting
various facial components, in this proposed system
has used the standard OpenCV Haar cascade to detect
the face and eyes. The template matching is a digital
image processing technique. This algorithm identify
the corresponding parts that match a template in an
input image [9].

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system. As the system is a client based architecture, it

would basically rely on client side where as it would
consider the service of the server only for processing.
When comes to the interface design, there is not
much interfaces to be deal with user. So a less
number of interfaces would be in use for i-Blink but,
all the interfaces are designed in order to maintain
user friendliness. Final stage of the design phase is
the program design phase. Pieces of code were
produced by each member according to the given
guidelines and to achieve the derived objectives by
the team. Integration of the code segments was done
in this stage and a system which behaves as the
system was developed. Prototype system consisted
only the main functions where as it was mainly for
the use to examine the failures and errors. Failures
which the team found was eliminated before coming
into the implementation stage.

B. Analysis
Analysing process of all existing systems and past
researches was carried out in this stage. Each system
which is there in the use was identified and analysed
separately and the team could identify their weakness
and strengths. Most importantly, the research gap of
the project was clearly identified in this process. A
questionnaire was used to gather information which
targeted the drivers in Sri Lanka. According to the
results of the questionnaire, a significant number of
drivers drive for a longer time in both day and night.
Though they have not met with any accidents related
to drowsiness driving, they prefer a system to be
attached into their vehicles. Most of the drivers own a
smartphone and they have android as the operating
system. And in general, all the smartphones are with
the needed processing power to run the developed
application. This shows up a clear idea and a clear
path carry on with the development of the project.
An entity relationship diagram was prepared to
represent the data model which describes how the
system represent data and how the system access
them. Analysing and planning the solution was an
easy task for the research team since the solution is
less theoretically based but more technically
weighted project.

D. Implementation
Integration of the sub modules was taken place in this
stage. Failures which was detected when building the
prototype was corrected by the programmers in this
stage. Once the actual programming was completed
and the system was nearing its completion, the team
started the test plans to test the system. The results of
the tests were documented in order for the future use.
A complete executable program was developed once
the testing was completed. The system consists with
only an android application. The android application
was developed using Eclipse and it uses OpenCV and
basic android libraries for image processing. Few
algorithms will be used to detect the eye blink and
eye features. Haar Cascade classifier is being used to
detect the eye and a separate classifier to detect the
face was used along with other algorithms. Finally,
the documentation with the final report of the
complete project was prepared.

C. Design
Figure 1 illustrate the high level architectural diagram
of the system. Users directly interact with the mobile
phone which will be the main operation and
processing hub. The results will be delivered to the
users on the go since the project is a real time
processing system.

Figure 3: Architectural diagram

Conversion of the logical diagrams into physical
diagram is done at the physical designing stage. This
will deliver a basic idea of the blue print of i-Blink.
The plan for the hardware, software will be designed
in the architectural design stage. It will also help to
develop the communication infrastructure of the

Figure 4: Basic Flow of the System

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Basic flow of the system between the modules is

shown in the figure 4 above.

the application is to be used inside vehicles in Sri

Lanka.

E. Testing
During the test phase all aspects of the system were
tested for functionality and performance. Essentially,
the key elements of the testing phase was to verify
that the game contains all the end user requirements
laid out in the analysis phase and that it meets the
quality standards of rehabilitation
This project was tested using two main methods.

B. Evidence
This section describe about the test results of the
system and there are four main testing done by the
research team called software testing, unit testing,
integration testing and finally system testing. Since
the application was built using eclipse targeting the
android users, a lot of libraries was used consisting
both android and openCV libraries. Software testing
was carried out to check whether these libraries and
other pieces of code segments was error free. Unit
testing was carried out to check the output the
hardware component which is the mobile phone.
Different parts of the complete project was developed
accordingly. So to check these modules and to check
whether all these separate code segments be able to
give out a common output, Integration testing carried
out. Finally a complete test was carried out to ensure
that the complete system works accordingly and to
check whether it gives the stated output of the project
meeting the objectives. This test can be named as a
System test. Objective of the above mentioned testing
process is to give out an efficient, affective, error free
system to the users.

Integration Testing
System Testing
Software Testing

RESULTS AND DISUSSION

This section can be divided in to three parts.
Research will discussed about the findings of the
research and how it works and compared the research
with similar project to show how this project will
unique from the others. About the tests and the
interfaces are shown in the section under evidence
and finally in the discussion section, research team
will discuss about the reliability and accuracy level of
the system. And also discussed about the technical
problems occurred in the research and finally the
solutions for those typical problems.

Only a couple of simple interfaces were needed to

carry out the while task. So the interfaces in numbers
shows a less value. The figure 6 illustrates the basic
view of the eye blink detecting interface which will
be the main interface out of all. As you can see, the
face, eye section (both eyes) and separate eyes are
detected separately. Mats are drawn around detected
surfaces just for the convenience.

A. Research
Before implement the system research team did a
questioner to identify the research component of the
system and would the project be of worth carrying
out targeting the local drivers. And also to get an idea
of what they really need. After getting the results, the
research team identified the research component or
the core of the research project which is a system to
detect the drowsiness of a driver. With respect to the
research component, the team found out the best
possible way to deliver the solution meeting the
project goals and objectives, which is developing a
mobile application.
Building the solution consisted of several main parts.
Detecting the face of the driver, detecting the eye of
the driver and detecting the eye blink which will give
a blink count are the named main functionalities. For
this process the team used an algorithm called
template matching and cascade classifiers to detect
the face and the eye. As a sub module, apart from the
driver alarm, alternative SMS service was also
implemented to notify the driver further. Testing was
a major task to be dealt with a lot of concern since
the system relies heavily on accuracy. The
application was tested for different angles, different
light conditions and with dynamic movement since

Figure 5: Eye blink detection interface

C. Discussion
As the developed system is a warning system to warn
the drivers, it heavily relies on the accuracy of the
system. Drivers should be warned right on time on
the correct situation in the most efficient way to get
them out of the drowsiness condition. Since the

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captured frames are taken in the form using a red

colour filter, the detection process can be carried out
even in low light conditions as well. To detect
drowsiness, eye blink rate was counted and it was
then compared with the standard eye blink rate of a
human being which is around 70-72 per minute.
Calculations were based on the standard eye blink
rate per minute. In addition, a simple text message is
designed to be sent to a pre taken number of the user
if the alarm was not responded on time.

come inbuilt with other normal vehicles. Existing

external warning systems uses high and heavy
technology where some of the drivers might not be
able to afford them and the cost of maintenance is
significantly high in such systems.
The usage of the system is comparatively simpler in a
high degree and it is with less cost than the existing
systems which uses high technology and high end
devises. The system is developed to detect the human
eye blink and then to warn the drivers if a particular
driver is detected with drowsiness with the use of a
mobile application via alarm alerts. This system iBlink: Drowsiness Detection and Warning System,
has targeted specifically to ease the process and to
reduce the difficulty for the users. As Sri Lanka is a
developing country, some of the technologies which
are in use internationally would be inflexible to adapt
in terms of usability and the implementation cost.
This research aims to introduce a system which
overcomes the above mentioned constraints in Sri
Lanka and a system which is affordable to almost
every driver.

The main issue the team faced was gaining the

technical knowledge to develop the system. As this
research project was completely a whole new area of
study, the language skills and the required knowledge
were two major points to consider when building the
system. With the help of online tutorial and
references papers of existing researches, the team
could overcome the issue. The other main technical
issue was to determine whether the system was
reliable to be use in mobile phones. Since the
processing power of mobile phones are
comparatively less, it was needed to find the best
possible way to do the processing part of the system
and that too in the best efficient way not harming the
accuracy and the performance of the output.

Even though the system is unique in a way of its

components, functionality and has numerous benefits
to its users, certain constraints were also identified in
the feasibility analysis process. By considering the
constraints of the system, some assumptions can be
made to make the system a feasible one. One of the
limitation that has been found out is the detection
process cannot be done under low light situations and
the camera should consist of a favourable resolution.
Therefore the camera should be 1.3 Mega Pixel or
above. Battery power of the mobile phone would be
another constraint for the system and distance
between the camera and the driver should not be
changed as well. Since the overall objective of the
system is to provide an effective drowsiness detecting
and warning system to Sri Lankan vehicle drivers, the
system is concerned only with drowsiness caused
traffic accidents. Therefore the solution is limited to
the cause of drowsiness and other types of causes are
not addressing through i-Blink.

All the processing parts were designed to be

implemented separately using another application
which was to be developed using MATLAB. But as
the research proceeded, the team find out a more
effective way and moved on to stick with just a
mobile application without using a third party
application which will reduce the efficiency when
meeting the research goals and objectives.
CONCLUSION
Driver drowsiness is recognized as an important
factor in the vehicle accidents and distraction due to
drowsiness of drivers can be identified as the main
cause for driver inattention. Drowsiness is
unforeseen, unavoidable and beyond the control of
the driver. Stress, illnesses, certain type of medicines,
repetitive driving and liquor can make the driver
drowsy. Sleepiness increases reaction time which is
critical in driving. With the help of the advanced
technology, a way of reducing the number of
accidents can be offered to some extent. Many
researches have been conducted on driver drowsiness
detection systems on various aspects and in various
angles. Significant number of literature reviews had
been reviewed by the research team of i-Blink in
order to find out the gap which has not been covered.
Number of developed drowsiness detection systems
which comes as factory fitted for high class luxury
vehicles can be seen and this technology does not

However the system solves issues with regard to

accidents caused by drowsiness effectively and
efficiently that also will help the drivers to keep in
alert and be conscious. As an output, an accurate
alarm at any needed moment will be provided on
time regardless of the location by overcoming the
issues of existing ineffective systems. I-Blink:
Drowsiness Detection and Warning System will be a
fruitful system which coincides with local
technological standards and helpful for the
researchers who are interested in carrying out further

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modifications to other types of causes of traffic

accidents and other related fields as well. Eventually
the system will be a noteworthy and a timely asset for
the drivers when considering the number of fatal
accidents caused by drowsiness and help to save the
life of drivers as well as the lives of the pedestrians.

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This research project opens up pathways to conduct

further more in the field of image processing for
mobile applications. As this project is based in the
android platform, applications targeting Windows
users and IOS users would be a great asset in the
asset in the future. Addition of sub modules, not only
to detect drowsiness detection, but also which covers
other driver inattention prevention will be another
degree which can be covered by the researchers. Fine
tuning this existing research like to suit even in the
low light conditions, and a method to prevent the
memory consumption of the mobile phone are some
of the modification which is possible to be carried
out.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to express our sincere sense of
gratitude to our institution - Sri Lanka Institute of
Information Technology (SLIIT). We are deeply
indebted to our Lecturer in charge for the subject
Comprehensive Design/Analysis Project Mrs.
Gayana Fernando, whose help, stimulating
suggestions,
knowledge,
experience
and
encouragement helped us in all the times of study and
analysis of the project in the pre and post research
period. We are also grateful to Mr Iresh Bandara who
helped us in many ways to a great extent in the
project. Also very special thanks to our lecture panel
and seniors. The completion of this undertaking
could not have been possible without the
participation and assistance of so many people whose
names may not all be enumerated.

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