Research on eye detection and segmentation is even more important with mask-wearing measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, it is necessary to build an eye image detection and segmentation dataset (EIMDSD), including labels for detecting and segmenting. In this study, we established a dataset to reduce elaboration for chipping eye images and denoting labels. An improved DeepLabv3+ network architecture (IDLN) was also proposed for applying it to the benchmark segmentation datasets. The IDLN was modified by cascading convolutional block attention modules (CBAM) with MobileNetV2. Experiments were carried out to verify the effectiveness of the EIMDSD dataset in human eye image detection and segmentation with different deep learning models. The result shows that the IDLN model achieves the appropriate segmentation accuracy for both eye images, while the UNet and ISANet models show the best results for the left eye data and the right eye data among the tested models.
Fatigue is a significant cause of traffic accidents. Developing a method for determining driver fatigue level by the state of the driver’s eye is a problem that requires a solution, especially when the driver is wearing a mask. Based on previous work, this paper proposes an improved DeepLabv3+ network architecture (IDLN) to detect eye segmentation. A Gaussian-weighted Eye State Fatigue Determination method (GESFD) was designed based on eye pixel distribution. An EFSD (Eye-based Fatigue State Dataset) was constructed to verify the effectiveness of this algorithm. The experimental results showed that the method can detect a fatigue state at 33.5 frames-per-second (FPS), with an accuracy of 94.4%. When this method is compared to other state-of-the-art methods using the YawDD dataset, the accuracy rate is improved from 93% to 97.5%. We also performed separate validations on natural light and infrared face image datasets; these validations revealed the superior performance of our method during both day and night conditions.
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