Apparatus and method for detecting distraction of driver in driving monitoring system

A computer program stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer program allows at least one processor to perform following operations to detect distraction of a driver in a driver monitoring system when executed by the at least one processor, and wherein the operations comprise:

• receiving a first image including a driver within a vehicle;
• determining a gaze class corresponding to the first image among a plurality of gaze classes by using a first model in response to the receiving the first image, wherein the plurality of gaze classes include a first gaze class indicating that the driver is gazing in a front direction and a second gaze class indicating that the driver is gazing in a non-front direction;
• and
• determining whether the distraction of the driver is present in the first image based on the gaze class corresponding to the first image, and
• wherein the determining whether the distraction of the driver is present in the first image comprises:
• extracting a yaw value and a pitch value from the first image;
• and
• determining whether the distraction of the driver is present in the first image, by using a distance between the extracted yaw value and pitch value and a gaze cluster corresponding to the determined gaze class of the first image among a plurality of gaze clusters generated by clustering selected reference images.

A computing device, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory,
• wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
• receive a first image including a driver within a vehicle;
• determine a gaze class corresponding to the first image among a plurality of gaze classes by using a first model in response to the receiving the first image, wherein the plurality of gaze classes include a first gaze class indicating that the driver is gazing in a front direction and a second gaze class indicating that the driver is gazing in a non-front direction;
• and
• determine whether the distraction of the driver is present in the first image based on the gaze class corresponding to the first image, and
• wherein the determining of whether the distraction of the driver is present in the first image comprises:
• extracting a yaw value and a pitch value from the first image;
• and
• determining whether the distraction of the driver is present in the first image, by using a distance between the extracted yaw value and pitch value and a gaze cluster corresponding to the determined gaze class of the first image among a plurality of gaze clusters generated by clustering selected reference images.