Critical Driver State Monitoring System

Integration of Implantable Cardo Defibrillator (ICD) and Driver Behavior:

Model of the dynamics of smart ICD

Face/Body Pose Pain Detection:

Research Scope

  • Collect open-source video databases that have pain expressions
  • Obtain Video of pain expressions during ICD event(s)
  • Use audio tracks when available

Lucy, P., Cohn, J. F., Prkachin, K. M., Solomon, P., & Matthrews, I. (2011). Painful data: The UNBC-McMaster Shoulder Pain Expression Archive Database. IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2011).

Driver Behavior Modeling for ICD Events:

Research Scope:

  • Model driver states, driving performance, and driver-vehicle interactions before, during, and after ICD events
  • Identify the role of ICD-based driver state monitoring system in driving safety
  • Develop Test Scenarios

Defibrillator-Vehicle Driving Simulator

Research Scope:

  • Test the scenarios for the developed pre- and post-episode driving model
  • Study the best time to switch from human drive to auto drive.
  • Study the desirable and effective vehicle-driver interface during different phases of ICD instances
  • Develop test equipment and method for evaluating the performance of defibrillator-enhanced driving state monitoring systems.