India is home to one of the most underpaid yet overworking drivers. Transporters expect them to work at least twenty hours straight without any consideration to their health. Due to this the drivers are often tired and often on the verge of fatigue. This leads them to have bursts of micro-sleep: a temporary episode of sleepiness which may last for a smidgen of a second or up to thirty seconds, where the victim fails to react to some stimulus from the environment and becomes unconscious. As a result of this, road accidents have become a common occurrence in India. One solution to this problem is to enhance the vehicles to an extent, so that it’s possible to find out the level of drowsiness of the driver in real time. In this paper, we conduct a survey to find various methods for detecting driver’s drowsiness condition.

Driver Assistant System, Road Accident, Drowsiness, micro-sleep, Image Processing, driver yawning

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