CarSafe app zooms in on driver safety
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The front camera focuses on signals from the driver, such as head pose, eyes and blinking rate, which provides the data to infer drowsiness and distraction
CarSafe takes advantage of the latest smartphone camera technology, which allows the simultaneous processing of dual-camera streams
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Researchers from the Dartmouth’s Smartphone Sensing Group have one core mission: make smartphones smarter by levering their embedded sensors to create new sensing applications. As part of their pursuit of techno-cognition, the team sensed that smartphones could make driving safer and conceived CarSafe, the first dual-camera app for smartphones.
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