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Nachiket Deo
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2018
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Informatics Engineering
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Continuous estimation the drivers take-over readiness is critical for safe and timely transfer of control during the failure modes of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach for estimating the drivers take-over readiness based purely on observable cues from in-vehicle vision sensors. We present an extensive naturalistic drive dataset of drivers in a conditionally autonomous vehicle running on Californian freeways. We collect subjective ratings for the drivers take-over readiness from multiple human observers viewing the sensor feed. Analysis of the ratings in terms of intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) shows a high degree of consistency in the ratings across raters. We define a metric for the drivers take-over readiness termed the Observable Readiness Index (ORI) based on the ratings. Finally, we propose an LSTM model for continuous estimation of the drivers ORI based on a holistic representation of the drivers state, capturing gaze, hand, pose and foot activity. Our model estimates the ORI with a mean absolute error of 0.449 on a 5 point scale.
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