Authors:
            
                    Rafael A. Berri
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Alexandre G. Silva
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Rafael S. Parpinelli
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Elaine Girardi
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                     and
                
                    Rangel Arthur
                    
                        
                                2
                            
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliations:
            
                    
                        
                                1
                            
                    
                    Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Brazil
                
                    ; 
                
                    
                        
                                2
                            
                    
                    University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Driver Distraction, Cell Phones, Machine Learning, Support Vector Machines, Skin Segmentation, Computer Vision, Genetic Algorithm.
        
        
            
                Related
                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Color and Texture Analyses
                    ; 
                        Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
                    ; 
                        Features Extraction
                    ; 
                        Image and Video Analysis
                    ; 
                        Segmentation and Grouping
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                It is estimated that 80% of crashes and 65% of near collisions involved drivers inattentive to traffic for three seconds before the event. This paper develops an algorithm for extracting characteristics allowing the cell phones identification used during driving a vehicle. Experiments were performed on sets of images with 100 positive images (with phone) and the other 100 negative images (no phone), containing frontal images of the driver. Support Vector Machine (SVM) with Polynomial kernel is the most advantageous classification system to the features provided by the algorithm, obtaining a success rate of 91.57% for the vision system. Tests done on videos show that it is possible to use the image datasets for training classifiers in real situations. Periods of 3 seconds were correctly classified at 87.43% of cases.