Method for detecting condition of viewing direction of rider of vehicle, involves estimating driver's line of sight on basis of detected location for each of eye characteristic of eyeball of rider and estimated position of head

摘要

The method involves monitoring facial feature points of the driver within the input image data, which are received by an in-vehicle camera device (10). The location for each of eye characteristics of an eyeball of the driver is detected on the basis of the monitored facial features. The head position of the driver is estimated on the basis of the monitored facial feature points. The driver's line of sight is estimated on the basis of the detected location for each of eye features and the estimated position of the head.