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Understanding Driving Distractions: A Multimodal Analysis on Distraction Characterization

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ABSTRACT

Distracted driving is a leading cause of accidents worldwide. The tasks of distraction detection and recognition have been traditionally addressed as computer vision problems. However, distracted behaviors are not always expressed in a visually observable way. In this work, we introduce a novel multimodal dataset of distracted driver behaviors, consisting of data collected using twelve information channels coming from visual, acoustic, near-infrared, thermal, physiological and linguistic modalities. The data were collected from 45 subjects while being exposed to four different distractions (three cognitive and one physical). For the purposes of this paper, we experiment with visual and physiological information and explore the potential of multimodal modeling for distraction recognition. In addition, we analyze the value of different modalities by identifying specific visual and physiological groups of features that contribute the most to distraction characterization. Our results highlight the advantage of multimodal representations and reveal valuable insights for the role played by the two modalities on identifying different types of driving distractions.

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          IUI '21: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
          April 2021
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          ISBN:9781450380171
          DOI:10.1145/3397481

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