Driver Drowsiness Detection System with OpenCV & Keras

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With this Python project, we will be making a drowsiness detection system. A countless number of people drive on the highway day and night. Taxi drivers, bus drivers, truck drivers and people traveling long-distance suffer from lack of sleep. Due to which it becomes very dangerous to drive when feeling sleepy.

The majority of accidents happen due to the drowsiness of the driver. So, to prevent these accidents we will build a system using Python, OpenCV, and Keras which will alert the driver when he feels sleepy.

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Drowsy Driver Alert System

Intermediate Python Project - Driver Drowsiness Detection System

Drowsiness detection is a safety technology that can prevent accidents that are caused by drivers who fell asleep while driving.

The objective of this intermediate Python project is to build a drowsiness detection system that will detect that a person’s eyes are closed for a few seconds. This system will alert the driver when drowsiness is detected.

Driver Drowsiness Detection System

In this Python project, we will be using OpenCV for gathering the images from webcam and feed them into a Deep Learning model which will classify whether the person’s eyes are ‘Open’ or ‘Closed’. The approach we will be using for this Python project is as follows :

Step 1 – Take image as input from a camera.

Step 2 – Detect the face in the image and create a Region of Interest (ROI).

Step 3 – Detect the eyes from ROI and feed it to the classifier.

Step 4 – Classifier will categorize whether eyes are open or closed.

Step 5 – Calculate score to check whether the person is drowsy.

Driver Drowsiness Detection Dataset

The dataset used for this model is created by us. To create the dataset, we wrote a script that captures eyes from a camera and stores in our local disk. We separated them into their respective labels ‘Open’ or ‘Closed’. The data was manually cleaned by removing the unwanted images which were not necessary for building the model. The data comprises around 7000 images of people’s eyes under different lighting conditions. After training the model on our dataset, we have attached the final weights and model architecture file “models/cnnCat2.h5”.

Now, you can use this model to classify if a person’s eye is open or closed.

Alternatively, if you want to build and train your own model, you can download the dataset: Driver Drowsiness Dataset

The Model Architecture

The model we used is built with Keras using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). A convolutional neural network is a special type of deep neural network which performs extremely well for image classification purposes. A CNN basically consists of an input layer, an output layer and a hidden layer which can have multiple layers. A convolution operation is performed on these layers using a filter that performs 2D matrix multiplication on the layer and filter.

The CNN model architecture consists of the following layers:

  • Convolutional layer; 32 nodes, kernel size 3
  • Convolutional layer; 32 nodes, kernel size 3
  • Convolutional layer; 64 nodes, kernel size 3
  • Fully connected layer; 128 nodes

The final layer is also a fully connected layer with 2 nodes. A Relu activation function is used in all the layers except the output layer in which we used Softmax.

Project Prerequisites

The requirement for this Python project is a webcam through which we will capture images. You need to have Python (3.6 version recommended) installed on your system, then using pip, you can install the necessary packages.

  1. OpenCV – pip install opencv-python (face and eye detection).
  2. TensorFlow – pip install tensorflow (keras uses TensorFlow as backend).
  3. Keras – pip install keras (to build our classification model).
  4. Pygame – pip install pygame (to play alarm sound).

Steps for Performing Driver Drowsiness Detection

Download the driver drowsiness detection system project source code from the zip and extract the files in your system: Driver Drowsiness Project Code

The contents of the zip are:

Project File Structure - Intermediate Python Project

  • The “haar cascade files” folder consists of the xml files that are needed to detect objects from the image. In our case, we are detecting the face and eyes of the person.
  • The models folder contains our model file “cnnCat2.h5” which was trained on convolutional neural networks.
  • We have an audio clip “alarm.wav” which is played when the person is feeling drowsy.
  • “Model.py” file contains the program through which we built our classification model by training on our dataset. You could see the implementation of convolutional neural network in this file.
  • “Drowsiness detection.py” is the main file of our project. To start the detection procedure, we have to run this file.

Let’s now understand how our algorithm works step by step.

Step 1 – Take Image as Input from a Camera

With a webcam, we will take images as input. So to access the webcam, we made an infinite loop that will capture each frame. We use the method provided by OpenCV, cv2.VideoCapture(0) to access the camera and set the capture object (cap). cap.read() will read each frame and we store the image in a frame variable.

Step 2 – Detect Face in the Image and Create a Region of Interest (ROI)

To detect the face in the image, we need to first convert the image into grayscale as the OpenCV algorithm for object detection takes gray images in the input. We don’t need color information to detect the objects. We will be using haar cascade classifier to detect faces. This line is used to set our classifier face = cv2.CascadeClassifier(‘ path to our haar cascade xml file’). Then we perform the detection using faces = face.detectMultiScale(gray). It returns an array of detections with x,y coordinates, and height, the width of the boundary box of the object. Now we can iterate over the faces and draw boundary boxes for each face.

for (x,y,w,h) in faces: 
        cv2.rectangle(frame, (x,y), (x+w, y+h), (100,100,100), 1 )

Step 3 – Detect the eyes from ROI and feed it to the classifier

The same procedure to detect faces is used to detect eyes. First, we set the cascade classifier for eyes in leye and reye respectively then detect the eyes using left_eye = leye.detectMultiScale(gray). Now we need to extract only the eyes data from the full image. This can be achieved by extracting the boundary box of the eye and then we can pull out the eye image from the frame with this code.

l_eye = frame[ y : y+h, x : x+w ]

l_eye only contains the image data of the eye. This will be fed into our CNN classifier which will predict if eyes are open or closed. Similarly, we will be extracting the right eye into r_eye.

Step 4 – Classifier will Categorize whether Eyes are Open or Closed

We are using CNN classifier for predicting the eye status. To feed our image into the model, we need to perform certain operations because the model needs the correct dimensions to start with. First, we convert the color image into grayscale using r_eye = cv2.cvtColor(r_eye, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY). Then, we resize the image to 24*24 pixels as our model was trained on 24*24 pixel images cv2.resize(r_eye, (24,24)). We normalize our data for better convergence r_eye = r_eye/255 (All values will be between 0-1). Expand the dimensions to feed into our classifier. We loaded our model using model = load_model(‘models/cnnCat2.h5’) . Now we predict each eye with our model
lpred = model.predict_classes(l_eye). If the value of lpred[0] = 1, it states that eyes are open, if value of lpred[0] = 0 then, it states that eyes are closed.

Step 5 – Calculate Score to Check whether Person is Drowsy

The score is basically a value we will use to determine how long the person has closed his eyes. So if both eyes are closed, we will keep on increasing score and when eyes are open, we decrease the score. We are drawing the result on the screen using cv2.putText() function which will display real time status of the person.

cv2.putText(frame, “Open”, (10, height-20), font, 1, (255,255,255), 1, cv2.LINE_AA )

A threshold is defined for example if score becomes greater than 15 that means the person’s eyes are closed for a long period of time. This is when we beep the alarm using sound.play()

The Source Code of our main file looks like this:

import cv2
import os
from keras.models import load_model
import numpy as np
from pygame import mixer
import time

mixer.init()
sound = mixer.Sound('alarm.wav')

face = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haar cascade files\haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')
leye = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haar cascade files\haarcascade_lefteye_2splits.xml')
reye = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haar cascade files\haarcascade_righteye_2splits.xml')

lbl=['Close','Open']

model = load_model('models/cnncat2.h5')
path = os.getcwd()
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
font = cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_COMPLEX_SMALL
count=0
score=0
thicc=2
rpred=[99]
lpred=[99]

while(True):
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    height,width = frame.shape[:2]

    gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

    faces = face.detectMultiScale(gray,minNeighbors=5,scaleFactor=1.1,minSize=(25,25))
    left_eye = leye.detectMultiScale(gray)
    right_eye = reye.detectMultiScale(gray)

    cv2.rectangle(frame, (0,height-50) , (200,height) , (0,0,0) , thickness=cv2.FILLED )

    for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
cv2.rectangle(frame, (x,y) , (x+w,y+h) , (100,100,100) , 1 )

    for (x,y,w,h) in right_eye:
        r_eye=frame[y:y+h,x:x+w]
        count=count+1
        r_eye = cv2.cvtColor(r_eye,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        r_eye = cv2.resize(r_eye,(24,24))
        r_eye= r_eye/255
        r_eye= r_eye.reshape(24,24,-1)
        r_eye = np.expand_dims(r_eye,axis=0)
        rpred = model.predict_classes(r_eye)
        if(rpred[0]==1):
            lbl='Open'
        if(rpred[0]==0):
            lbl='Closed'
        break

    for (x,y,w,h) in left_eye:
        l_eye=frame[y:y+h,x:x+w]
        count=count+1
        l_eye = cv2.cvtColor(l_eye,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
        l_eye = cv2.resize(l_eye,(24,24))
        l_eye= l_eye/255
        l_eye=l_eye.reshape(24,24,-1)
        l_eye = np.expand_dims(l_eye,axis=0)
        lpred = model.predict_classes(l_eye)
        if(lpred[0]==1):
            lbl='Open'
        if(lpred[0]==0):
            lbl='Closed'
        break

    if(rpred[0]==0 and lpred[0]==0):
        score=score+1
        cv2.putText(frame,"Closed",(10,height-20), font, 1,(255,255,255),1,cv2.LINE_AA)
    # if(rpred[0]==1 or lpred[0]==1):
    else:
        score=score-1
        cv2.putText(frame,"Open",(10,height-20), font, 1,(255,255,255),1,cv2.LINE_AA)

    if(score<0):
        score=0
    cv2.putText(frame,'Score:'+str(score),(100,height-20), font, 1,(255,255,255),1,cv2.LINE_AA)
    if(score>15):
        #person is feeling sleepy so we beep the alarm
        cv2.imwrite(os.path.join(path,'image.jpg'),frame)
        try:
            sound.play()

        except: # isplaying = False
            pass
        if(thicc<16):
            thicc= thicc+2
        else:
            thicc=thicc-2
            if(thicc<2):
                thicc=2
        cv2.rectangle(frame,(0,0),(width,height),(0,0,255),thicc)
    cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Driver Drowsiness Detection Execution

Let’s execute drive drowsiness detection system and see the working of our ml project. To start the project, you need to open a command prompt, go to the directory where our main file “drowsiness detection.py” exists. Run the script with this command.

python “drowsiness detection.py”

It may take a few seconds to open the webcam and start detection.

Example Screenshot:

running drowsiness program - python project with source code

Output Screenshot:

closed eye detection python project for beginners

Closed Eye Detection

Open Eyes Detection - python open source projects

Open Eyes Detection

sleep alert - python open source project

Sleep Alert

Summary

In this Python project, we have built a drowsy driver alert system that you can implement in numerous ways. We used OpenCV to detect faces and eyes using a haar cascade classifier and then we used a CNN model to predict the status.

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223 Responses

  1. keshav kumar says:

    can you explain in model.py what is ‘data/train’ that you are returning from generator method..
    please

  2. Kishan Gondaliya says:

    from where we can get the files of haar cascade and models????
    if Possible help me out because i m also working on this project currently.

  3. amit says:

    ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

    During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “drowsiness detection.py”, line 3, in
    from keras.models import load_model
    File “C:\python 3.6\lib\site-packages\keras\__init__.py”, line 6, in
    ‘Keras requires TensorFlow 2.2 or higher. ‘
    ImportError: Keras requires TensorFlow 2.2 or higher. Install TensorFlow via `pip install tensorflow`

  4. Gaurav says:

    Bro atleast upload dataset so we can know what the data is all about. Like the data is of left eye or the right eye or the both how we will know whats the dataset is all about?

  5. sushmitha says:

    please upload the dataset of this project

  6. Sreerag kk says:

    Whil6 executing this programme I gets an error

    Soumd=mixer.sound(‘alarm.wav’)
    Filenotfounderror: no such file or directory

  7. Ayman says:

    Could I kindly get the dataset you used to train the model?

  8. aman says:

    can you provide the dataset used in the project

  9. Kyle says:

    Can you please email me the dataset used in this project?

  10. Pritesh singh says:

    Sir can you provide the dataset used in this project it is urgent.
    Please

  11. Ram says:

    Please provide dataset sir

  12. sepid says:

    hi,can me help to achieve to dataset of this project. i need to dataset to my project of university 🙂

  13. kunal chauhan says:

    can u please give me the synopsis of that project

  14. Sayali Murlidhar Deshmukh says:

    can i get the dataset of this project

  15. SAKA PRUDHVI says:

    I just want to make this as an andriod application how that would be possible, can any one please help ?

  16. fazil says:

    pls any one tell how to run a project

  17. Hitesh says:

    where is data/train and valid file in model.py file can u please share that

  18. Sebastian says:

    Hello there 🙂

    I am quite new to programming with Python and came to this website more or less by accident. Reading about this project was so interesting that I had to give it a try nevertheless and tried to reproduce it on my system. Everything went smooth so far but when I run the main program the camera window stays empty. I use the webcam that is part of my laptop and even the small light next to it is on when I run the program but there is no output. Does anyone know why? I would appreciate all kind of feedback.

    Greetings

  19. Prasanth Prakasan says:

    Can you please send the dataset

  20. Jayanth says:

    Did you got the correct output.please send me details

  21. Rohit Satish Dhumawat says:

    Can you please provide dataset of this project please..

  22. Bhavya says:

    Hi sir ,iam try to do this project but i want the dataset what u created by scripting please send that dataset and while I try to incresare the epoch value it thrpughing error data/train path is not specified ,please it for m,Thank you.

  23. Nikhita says:

    Kindly upload the dataset used in this project.
    What is the accuracy measure of this project?

  24. Archana says:

    Can you please tell me how to create a deep learning model step by step as your model is not at all opening.

  25. Elton says:

    I do appreciate the workdone for this project.
    May you please provide me the link with the dataset and script used to capture images
    Thanks in advance

  26. Vandana says:

    Hello, kindly help me with the data set of this project.

  27. esmat says:

    I need the dataset can you please send me the datasets

  28. raviteja says:

    can u send the dataset in zip formate pls it full very lot

  29. Aniket says:

    Search MRL dataset on google you,ll find it

  30. Fatima Khatib says:

    Hello Sir. This project is very good. Can you please provide the complete dataset used in this project.

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