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Introduction
The AP is an artificial intelligencebased companion that will be resident in software and
chips embedded in the automobile dashboard. The heart of the system is a conversation planner
that holds a profile of you, including details of your interests and profession.
A microphone picks up your answer and breaks it down into separate words with speech
recognition software. A camera built into the dashboard also tracks your lip movements to
improve the accuracy of the speech recognition. A voice analyzer then looks for signs of
tiredness by checking to see if the answer matches your profile. Slow responses and a lack of
intonation are signs of fatigue.
This research suggests that we can make predictions about various aspects of driver
performance based on what we glean from the movements of a drivers eyes and that a system
can eventually be developed to capture this data and use it to alert people when their driving has
become significantly impaired by fatigue.
The natural dialog car system analyzes a drivers answer and the contents of the answer
together with his voice patterns to determine if he is alert while driving. The system warns the
driver or changes the topic of conversation if the system determines that the driver is about to fall
asleep. The system may also detect whether a driver is affected by alcohol or drugs.

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What is an artificial passenger?

The AP is an artificial intelligencebased companion that will be resident in
software and chips embedded in the automobile dashboard.
It is a Natural Language E-companion.
It is a Sleep preventive device in cars to overcome drowsiness.
It is a Life safety system.
What does it do?
Detects alarm conditions through sensors.
Broadcasts pre-stored voice messages over the speakers.
Captures images of the driver.

Background Of The Invention

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During the night times the driver could get sleepier which may be porn to accidents. So in
order to overcome the sleepiness the driver could have taken one of the following or all the
below precautions.
Use of simulation drinks (e.g.: coffee and tea)
Some tablets to prevent sleeping.
Miniature system installed in drivers hat.
As these methods are some times inefficient and it may affect the health conditions of the
driver. So in order to overcome the disadvantages of these methods IBM introduces a new sleep
prevention technology device called as ARTIFICIAL PASSENGER which was developed by
Dimitry Kanevsky and Wlodek Zadrozny.
This software holds the conversation with driver to determine whether the driver can
respond alertly enough.
The name artificial passenger was first suggested in new scientist magazine which was
designed to make solo journey safer and more bearable.
Early techniques for determining head-pose used devices that were fixed to the head of
the subject to be tracked. For example, reflective devices were attached to the subjects head and
using a light source to illuminate the reflectors, the reflector locations were determined.
As such reflective devices are more easily tracked than the head itself, the problem of tracking
head-pose was simplified greatly.

Virtual-reality headsets are another example of the subject wearing a device for the
purpose of head-pose tracking. These devices typically rely on a directional antenna and radiofrequency sources, or directional magnetic measurement to determine head-pose.

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Wearing a device of any sort is clearly a disadvantage, as the user's competence and
acceptance to wearing the device then directly effects the reliability of the system. Devices are
generally intrusive and will affect a user's behavior, preventing natural motion or operation.
Structured light techniques that project patterns of light onto the face in order to determine headpose are also known.
The light patterns are structured to facilitate the recovery of 3D information using simple
image processing. However, the technique is prone to error in conditions of lighting variation
and is therefore unsuitable for use under natural lighting conditions.

Why Such Systems?

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According to the national survey in UK and USA, it is observed that driver fatigue
annually causes
100,000 crashes
15000 deaths
71,000 injuries
Which cause annual cost of $12.5 billion.

A majority of the off-road accidents observed were preceded by eye closures of one-half
second to as long as 2 to 3 seconds. A normal human blink lasts 0.2 to 0.3 second

Advantages of using this system:

Artificial Passenger is broadly used to prevent accident.
Artificial Passenger device is also used for entertainment such as it telling jokes and
asking question .
Artificial Passenger component establishes interface with other drivers very easily.
Open and close the window of a car automatically and also answer a call for you.
If the driver gets a heart attack or he is drunk it will send signals to vehicles nearby
about this so driver there become alert.
Provide a natural dialog car system that understands content of tapes, books and radio
programs.

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Devices Used In Artificial Passenger

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The main devices that are used in this artificial passenger are: Eye tracker or Camera.
Voice recognizer or speech recognizer.
Touch sensors.
How does eye tracking work?
Collecting eye movement data requires hardware and software specifically designed to
Perform this function. Eye-tracking hardware is either mounted on a user's head or mounted
remotely. Both systems measure the corneal reflection of an infrared light emitting diode (LED),
which illuminates and generates a reflection off the surface of the eye. This action causes the
pupil to appear as a bright disk in contrast to the surrounding iris and creates a small glint
underneath the pupil . It is this glint that head-mounted and remote systems use for calibration
and tracking.
1. Hardware: Head-mounted and remote systems
The difference between the head-mounted and remote eye systems is how the eye
tracker collects eye movement data. Head-mounted systems , since they are fixed on a
user's head and therefore allow for head movement, use multiple data points to record
eye movement.
To differentiate eye movement from head movement, these systems measure the
pupil glint from multiple angles. Since the unit is attached to the head, a person can move
about when operating a car or flying a plane, for example For instance, human factors
researchers have used head-mounted eye-tracking systems to study pilots' eye movements
as they used cockpit controls and instruments to land airplanes (Fitts, Jones, and Milton
1950).

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These findings led to cockpit redesigns that improved usability and significantly
reduced the likelihood of incidents caused by human error. More recently, head-mounted
eye-tracking systems have been used by technical communicators to study the visual
relationship between personal digital assistant (PDA) screen layout and eye movement.
Remote systems, by contrast, measure the orientation of the eye relative to a fixed
unit such as a camera mounted underneath a computer monitor . Because remote units do
not measure the pupil glint from multiple angles, a person's head must remain almost
motionless during task performance. Although head restriction may seem like a
significant hurdle to overcome, Jacob and Karn (2003) attribute the popularity of remote
systems in usability to their relatively low cost and high durability compared with headmounted systems.
Since remote systems are usually fixed to a computer screen, they are often used
for studying onscreen eye motion. For example, cognitive psychologists have used
remote eye-tracking systems to study the relationship between cognitive scanning styles
and search strategies (Crosby and Peterson 1991). Such eye-tracking studies have been
used to develop and test existing visual search cognitive models. More recently, humancomputer interaction (HCI) researchers have used remote systems to study computer and
Web interface usability.
Through recent advances in remote eye-tracking equipment, a range of head
movement can now be accommodated. For instance, eye-tracking hardware manufacturer
Tobii Technology now offers a remote system that uses several smaller fixed sensors
placed in the computer monitor frame so that the glint underneath the pupil is measured
from multiple angles. This advance will eliminate the need for participants in eyetracking studies to remain perfectly still during testing, making it possible for longer
studies to be conducted using remote systems.

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2. Software: Data collection, analysis, and representation

Data collection and analysis is handled by eye-tracking software. Although some
software is more sophisticated than others, all share common features. Software catalogs
eye- tracking data in one of two ways. In the first, data are stored in video format.
ERICA's Eye Gaze[TM] software, for instance, uses a small red x to represent eye
movement that is useful for observing such movement in relation to external factors such
as user verbalizations. In the other, data are stored as a series of x/y coordinates related to
specific grid points on the computer screen.
Data can be organized in various ways--by task or participant, for example and
broken down into fixations and saccades that can be visually represented onscreen.
Fixations, which typically last between 250 and 500 milliseconds, occur when the eye is
focused on a particular point on a screen . Fixations are most commonly measured
according to duration and frequency. If, for instance, a banner ad on a Web page receives
lengthy and numerous fixations, it is reasonable to conclude that the ad is successful in
attracting attention. Saccades, which usually last between 25 and 100 milliseconds, move
the eye from one fixation to the next fixation. When saccades and fixations are
sequentially organized, they produce scan paths. If, for example, a company would like to
know why people are not clicking on an important link in what the company feels is a
prominent part of the page, a scan path analysis would show how people visually
progress through the page. In this case, such an analysis might show that the link is
poorly placed because it is located on a part of the screen that does not receive much eye
traffic.

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Fig: Former CMU professor Richard Grace is shown on a TV monitor while testing a DD 850, a
dashboard-mounted infrared camera that can detect when a driver is starting to fall asleep. The
device will beep to alarm a sleepy driver.

Fig: Eye- Tracker

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Architecture

Fig: General architecture

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Microphone:
For picking up the words and separate them by some internally used software for
Conversation.

Camera:
This will track the lip movements of the driver and also used for the improvement
for the accuracy of the speech recognition.

External service provider:

Linked to the dialog system by wireless network system Coupled with
Car media, driver profile, conversational planner.
Driver analyzer module
It controls interruption of a dialog between the driver and the car dashboard (for
example, interrupting a conversation to deliver an urgent message about traffic conditions
on an expected driver route).

Temperature indicator:
This component is used to measure the temperature inside the vehicle and it also
helps in maintaining the steady temperature

Door lock sensor:

This sensor alarms when the door is not locked.

Odor sensor:
This sensor will periodically sprinkles the sweet air inside the vehicle.

Speaker:
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This generally used for the entertainment purpose.

Working Components

Fig: Working components of AP

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There are some of the components which supports for the working of the system:
Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR)
Natural Language Processor (NLP)
Driver analyzer
Conversational planner (CP)
Alarm
External service provider
Microphone
Camera
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR):
There are two ASRs used in the system:
Speaker independent: It will decode the driver voice and the decoded voice
signals will output to Natural Language Processor (NLP)
Operates with a voice car media, decodes tapes, audio books, telephone mails.
Decoding outputs of the ASR module is analyzed by Intelligent text processor and it will
output data to conversational planner.
Natural Language Processor (NLP):
Processes the decoded signal of textual data from ASR module, identifies semantic and
syntactic content of the decoded message , produces variants of responses and outputs this data
to a text input of the driver analyzer.
Driver analyzer:
Receives the textual data and voice data from NLP and measures the time of response
using a clock. This time responses, concludes about drivers alertness and it will output to the
conversational planner. This analysis is both objective & subjective.

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Conversational planner:
This is generally referred as the heart of the system and it instructs the language generator
to produce the response. If the driver continues to be in a perfect condition, then conversational
planner instructs the language generator to continue the conversation otherwise the language
generator is instructed to change the conversation.
Alarm:
If the conversational planner receives information that the driver is about to fall asleep
then it activates an alarm system.
External Service Provider:
Linked to the dialog system by wireless network system as it is coupled with
Car media, driver profile, conversational planner
Driver analyzer module.
It controls interruption of a dialog between the driver and the car dashboard (for example,
interrupting a conversation to deliver an urgent message about traffic conditions on an expected
driver route).
Microphone:
It picks up the words and separate it using speech recognition software.
Camera:
A camera built into the dashboard used to track the lip movement of the driver to improve
the accuracy of the speech recognition.

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Applications
The following are the applications of the artificial passenger:
Artificial Passenger is broadly used to prevent accident.
Prevents the driver, falling asleep during long and solo trip.
If the driver gets a heart attack or he is drunk it will send signals to vehicles
nearby about this so driver there become alert.
In any problem it alerts the vehicles near by this, so the driver there become alert.
Opens and closes the doors and windows of the car automatically.
It is also used for the entertainment.
It provides a natural dialog car system that understands content of tapes, books
and radio programs.
This system can also be used in other situations such as

Security guard

Operators at nuclear plants

Pilots of airplane.

Cabins in airplanes.

Water craft such as boats.

Trains and subways.

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Future Enhancements

To provide us with a shortest-time routing based on road conditions changing

because of weather and traffic, information of about the cars on the route, destination
requirement (as flight has been delayed or cancelled).

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Conclusion

Successful implementation of artificial passenger would allow use of various services in

car like reading e-mails, navigation, downloading music files, voice games without
compromising a driver safety.
A primary objective of the invention is to provide a system and method for monitoring
driver alertness with a single camera focused on the face of the driver to monitor for conditions
of driver fatigue and lack of sleep.
A secondary objective of the invention is to provide a system and method for monitoring
driver alertness which operates in real time which would be sufficient time to avert an accident.
A third objective of the invention is to provide a system and method for monitoring
driver alertness that uses a computer vision to monitor both the eyes and the rotation of the
driver's head through video sequences.

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