Cabin Monitoring: More Human Sensor Research & Rear Passenger Radar Alerts

Eyesight Technologies, an AI computer vision solutions leader, and Ariel University, one of Israel’s leading national research universities, today announced an ongoing collaboration on the university’s “Mobile Laboratory” (M-Lab). The collaboration is part of Ariel University’s wider study, and will provide Eyesight Technologies with unique datasets to study the state of drivers behind the wheel.

The M-Lab test vehicle is equipped with Eyesight Technologies Driver Sense, a driver monitoring system which provides the lab with accurate monitoring data related to the driver’s face and eyes. The vision layer of the company’s technology monitors eye openness, blink rate, the direction of the driver’s gaze, and head pose, among other factors to determine the state of the driver behind the wheel.

Hyundai Mobis said on March 22 that it successfully developed the system for detecting rear-seat passengers with a ‘radar’ (ROA, Rear Occupant Alert), and it is planning to propose the system to global automakers.

The ROA is a device for preventing passengers from being left unattended in rear seats. In the past, the weight sensor of children’s car seats or the ultrasonic sensor were used in general. Hyundai Mobis vastly improved detection accuracy by replacing them with the radar sensor. It is expected to greatly help prevent heatstroke accidents caused every summer by children being left unattended in vehicles and other safety accidents.

Read more: https://www.autoconnectedcar.com/2020/03/cabin-monitoring-more-human-sensor-research-rear-passenger-radar-alerts/