Vehicle Occupant Head Detection Algorithm for Smart Airbag Deployment
Tae-Wuk Bae, Byoungik Kim, Youngchoon Kim, Sang‐Ho Ahn, Kuhnil Lee · ITC-CSCC :International Technical Conference on Circuits Systems, Computers and Communications · 2007
In recent years, the development of airbag system has improved the safety of the occupants. However, the car occupant can be often killed by improper airbag operation. Robust detection of vehicle occupant posture is necessary for a safer intelligent airbag deployment system. In this paper, we propose a color and morphology-based system that monitors the head position of the occupant. To find head position, the proposed algorithm performs face color thresholding and several morphology methods. And in case of face disappearance by change of outdoor illumination, the algorithm can find head positon by motion detection.