Vision-Based Driver Drowsiness Monitoring: Comparative Analysis of YOLOv5-v11 Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17498v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:30:02 GMT
• Title: Vision-Based Driver Drowsiness Monitoring: Comparative Analysis of YOLOv5-v11 Models
• Authors: Dilshara Herath, Chinthaka Abeyrathne, Prabhani Jayaweera,
• Abstract summary: Driver drowsiness remains a critical factor in road accidents, accounting for thousands of fatalities and injuries each year.<n>This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of real-time, non-intrusive drowsiness detection methods, focusing on computer vision based YOLO algorithms.
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• Abstract: Driver drowsiness remains a critical factor in road accidents, accounting for thousands of fatalities and injuries each year. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of real-time, non-intrusive drowsiness detection methods, focusing on computer vision based YOLO (You Look Only Once) algorithms. A publicly available dataset namely, UTA-RLDD was used, containing both awake and drowsy conditions, ensuring variability in gender, eyewear, illumination, and skin tone. Seven YOLO variants (v5s, v9c, v9t, v10n, v10l, v11n, v11l) are fine-tuned, with performance measured in terms of Precision, Recall, mAP0.5, and mAP 0.5-0.95. Among these, YOLOv9c achieved the highest accuracy (0.986 mAP 0.5, 0.978 Recall) while YOLOv11n strikes the optimal balance between precision (0.954) and inference efficiency, making it highly suitable for embedded deployment. Additionally, we implement an Eye Aspect Ratio (EAR) approach using Dlib's facial landmarks, which despite its low computational footprint exhibits reduced robustness under pose variation and occlusions. Our findings illustrate clear trade offs between accuracy, latency, and resource requirements, and offer practical guidelines for selecting or combining detection methods in autonomous driving and industrial safety applications.

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