• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.827-832
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• 2006

Occupant classification and position detection have been significant research areas in intelligent safety systems in the automotive field. The detection and classification of seat occupancy open up new ways to control the safety system. This paper deals with a novel algorithm development, hardware implementation and testing of a prototype intelligent safety system for occupant classification and position detection for in-vehicle environment. Borland C++ program is used to develop the novel algorithm interface between the sensor and data acquisition system. MEMS strain gauge hermatic pressure sensor containing micromachined integrated circuits is installed inside the passenger seat. The analog output of the sensor is connected with a connector to a PCI-9111 DG data acquisition card for occupancy detection, classification and position detection. The algorithm greatly improves the detection of whether an occupant is present or absent, and the classification of either adult, child or non-human object is determined from weights using the sensor. A simple computation algorithm provides the determination of the occupant's appropriate position using centroidal calculation. A real time operation is achieved with the system. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of the implemented prototype is robust for occupant classification and position detection. This research may be applied in intelligent airbag design for efficient deployment.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.53-56
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• 2002

A new generation of the BMW child seat and occupant detection system SBE2 far a smart airbag system is described. The SBE2 system consists of two subsystems: OC (Occupant Classification) and FDS (Field Detection System). The OC system is a force sensitive sensor array that measures a pressure profile. The FDS system detects child seat and occupant according to the change of electrical field generated by four capacitive plates. Combining the signals from both subsystems, the BMW SBE2 system can distinguish fully automatically between a child seat and a person.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2018

Recently, the safety in vehicle also has become a hot topic as self-driving car is developed. In passive safety systems such as airbags and seat belts, the system is being changed into an active system that actively grasps the status and behavior of the passengers including the driver to mitigate the risk. Furthermore, it is expected that it will be possible to provide customized services such as seat deformation, air conditioning operation and D.W.D (Distraction While Driving) warning suitable for the passenger by using occupant information. In this paper, we propose robust vehicle occupant detection algorithm based on RGB-Depth-Thermal camera for obtaining the passengers information. The RGB-Depth-Thermal camera sensor system was configured to be robust against various environment. Also, one of the deep learning algorithms, OpenPose, was used for occupant detection. This algorithm is advantageous not only for RGB image but also for thermal image even using existing learned model. The algorithm will be supplemented to acquire high level information such as passenger attitude detection and face recognition mentioned in the introduction and provide customized active convenience service.

• 센서학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.385-392
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• 2009

This paper describes the algorithm development of a new body pressure detection sensor for occupant classification system. U.S. Government has required that advanced airbag system should be installed to every automobiles after 2006 according to FMVSS 208 regulation. Therefore, Occupant Classification System should be provided the passenger with safety in order to protect the infants or children that sit in the front passenger seat. When an occupant sits on the chair of the vehicle, deployment of the airbag depends on passenger's weigh distribution and postures. Authors have been developed a new pattern recognition of passenger and weight distribution at the same time by Force Sensing Resistor for the safety.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.20-26
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• 2020

Many children have died (Heat stroke deaths) in the U.S. after being left alone in cars during hot weather, especially summer season. According to related report, more than 800 children have died of heat stroke from being trapped in a hot car since 1998. The regulation party, government has started to make not only technical regulation to prevent tragedy but also legislate to punish. However the 75% of accident has occurred unintended by their parents. So punishment is not the best solution for this case. So in this study, we analyze the trend of regulation and technology to save occupant who remained back seat. And finally we propose a countermeasure to prevent heat stroke deaths.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.66-75
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 단일 비디오카메라와 초음파센서를 이용한 스마트 에어백용 승객 감지 시스템을 제안하였다. 승객의 체형과 얼굴 위치를 검출하기 위하여, 실시간 검출이 용이한 얼굴색 및 움직임 정보를 이용한다. 비디오 카메라 영상에서 얼굴색에 해당하는 색차신호 (U/V)의 경계값과 휘도신호 (Y)의 현재 프레임과 이전 프레임간의 차이값을 이용하여 후보 얼굴 블록 영상을 만든 후 모폴로지 및 라벨링 과정을 거쳐 얼굴 위치를 검출한다. 제안한 승객 자세감지 시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 차량 지그에 IEEE 카메라, 초음파 센서 및 적외선 LED를 설치하여 다양한 실험을 수행하였다.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.73-90
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• 2019

The growth in the number of single-member households is a critical issue worldwide, especially among the elderly. For those living alone, who may be unaware of their health status or routines that could improve their health, a continuous healthcare monitoring system could provide valuable feedback. Assessing the performance adequacy of activities of daily living (ADL) can serve as a measure of an individual's health status; previous research has focused on determining a person's daily activities and extracting the most frequently performed behavioral patterns using camera recordings or wearable sensing techniques. However, existing methods used to extract common patterns of an occupant's activities in the home fail to address the spatio-temporal dimensions of human activities simultaneously. Though multiple sequence alignment (MSA) offers some advantages - such as inherent containment of the spatio-temporal data in sequence format, and rapid identification of hidden patterns - MSA has rarely been used to extract in-home ADL routines. This research proposes a method to extract a household occupant's ADL routines from a cumulative spatio-temporal data log of occupancy collected using a non-intrusive method (i.e., a tomographic motion detection system). The findings from an occupant's 28-day spatio-temporal activity log demonstrate the capacity of the proposed approach to identify routine patterns of an occupant's daily activities and to reveal the order, duration, and frequency of routine activities. Routine ADL patterns identified from the proposed approach are expected to provide a basis for detecting/evaluating abrupt or gradual changes of an occupant's ADL patterns that result from a physical or mental disorder, and can offer valuable information for home automation applications by enabling the prediction of ADL patterns.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.148-156
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• 2003

Many car manufacturers have frequently adopted an aggressive inflator and a lower threshold speed for airbag deployment in order to meet an injury requirement for unbolted occupant at high speed crash test. Consequently, today's occupant safety restraint system has a weakness due to an airbag induced injury at low speed crash event. This paper proposes a new crash algorithm to improve the weakness by suppressing airbag deployment at low speed crash event in case of belted condition. The proposed algorithm consists of two major blocks-crash severity algorithm and deployment logic block. The first block decides crash severity with two levels by means of velocity and crash energy calculation from acceleration signal. The second block implemented by simple AND/OR logic combines the crash severity level and seat belt status information to generate firing commands for airbag and belt pretensioner. Furthermore, it can be extended to adopt additional sensor information from passenger presence detection sensor and safing sensor. A simulation using real crash data for a 1,800cc passenger vehicle has been conducted to verify the performance of proposed algorithm.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.1026-1031
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• 2021

세계 자동차 기술의 발전과 시장 규모의 확대로 차량 수요가 증가하고 있으며 이로 인해 차량탑승 인원은 감소하고 도로의 차량 수는 증가하는 추세이다. 이는 교통체증의 원인이 되며 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 다인승 전용차로 제도를 시행하고 있으나 불법 이용 차량은 계속 증가하고 있다. 이러한 불법 행위를 단속하기 위한 다양한 기술이 연구되고 있다. 기존에 개발된 시스템은 트리거 장비를 이용하여 차량을 인식하고 적외선 카메라를 통해 차량을 촬영하여 차량 탑승 인원을 감지한다. 본 논문에서는 기존 시스템 적용된 트리거 장비를 이용하지 않고 딥러닝 모델 기술을 적용한 차량탑승 인원탐지 시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 기술은 영상 내에 트리거를 설정하여 차량을 탐지하고 딥러닝 객체 인식모델을 적용하여 실시간 탑승 인원을 감지하는 시스템을 제안한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.1796-1816
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• 2020

The health and safety of elderly and disabled patients who cannot live alone is an important issue. Timely detection of sudden events is necessary to protect these people, and anomaly detection in smart homes is an efficient approach to extracting such information. In the real world, there is a causal relationship between an occupant's behaviour and the order in which appliances are used in the home. Bayesian networks are appropriate tools for assessing the probability of an effect due to the occurrence of its causes, and vice versa. This paper defines different subsets of random variables on the basis of sensory data from a smart home, and it presents an anomaly detection system based on various models of Bayesian networks and drawing upon these variables. We examine different models to obtain the best network, one that has higher assessment scores and a smaller size. Experimental evaluations of real datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed method.