Is Our Driving Behavior Unique?
Kei M. Igarashi, Kazuya Takeda, Fumitada Itakura, H. Abut · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2005
In this chapter, uniqueness of driver behavior in vehicles and the possibility to use in personal identification has been investigated with the objectives to achieve safer driving, to assist the driver in case of emergencies, and to be part of a multi-mode biometric signature for driver identification. Towards that end, the distributions and the spectra of pressure readings from the accelerator and brake pedals of drivers are measured. We have attempted to use the linear combination of these pedal pressure signals as the feature set. Preliminary results indicate that drivers apply pressure to pedals differently. Are they distinctly unique to be used an independent biometric to identify the individual? Even though our findings at this time are not conclusive, additional features, time-series analysis of the collected data and/or integration these features with audio and video inputs are being investigated.