Figure 7 Predictions of a network with a confidence logic.
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Figure 1. A capacitive sensor. vehicle on a road can make use of our HOD model without this system. This system is very economical because a sensor and a board is cheap, and is powerful because we do not need a labelling process at all. It can also be used or extended easily for other studies using in-vehicle data and hands on/off data. Figure 2. Data collection system. (a) The steering wheel covered with copper wire and tape; (b) a ca- pacitive sensor connected to an Arduino board. 2.2. Data Description Figure 3 shows where we collected data. We searched for some low-traffic roads because driving without holding the steering is dangerous. To discern for in-vehicle data variance between the hands on the steering wheel and from a rough sur bumps, sidewalk-blocked roads and unpaved roads are included does nit need to discern between these types of roads, but has the hands on/off s a soft steering scenario with a real vehicle. The speed varies from drive is about a minute and is comprised of 4~6 consecutive average. A total of than 5 years, partic except in low-spee 5 kph were discard tates according to the road types. Data were main 30 kph hands o 3 drivers from ages 26 to 30, who have driving ex valid d el. Da ipated in the study. About 5 h and 25 min of d situations (under 5 kph), as shown in Tab face, asphalt roads, . The deep learning model o capture the variances of y collected under 0 90 kph. A single n/off changes, on periences of more ata were collected, ta collected under ed, since we defined the “driving” state as above 5 kph, considering vehicle dynamics. Since we drove only on the safe roads, the length of a single drive was not long enough. T herefore, we had data length shows about 5.5 h). However, balancing the data for classi relatively easy by repeating a short road several times. to spend much more time driving than the actual total fication was made Table 1. Summary of collected data. Total data are about 5 h and 35 min, and were well balanced Table 2. Input data of a deep learning model. Table 3. Output data of a deep learning model. Figure 4. An example of collected data. Hands on and hands off state was shown as blue and with transparent background, respectively. All signals except for vehicle speed were min-max normalized. Figure 4. An example of collected data. Hands on and hands off state was shown as blue and with Figure 5. A diagram of proposed network and data. The confidence logic is a kind of postprocess applied to the predictions of a network [he raw predictions of a network are somewhat unstable. Figure 6 shows an example of he raw prediction by a threshold of 0.5, that is, the probability over 0.5 is hands on and the other is hands off. Some outliers can be observed around 12 s. It might be a slight loss when t comes to the entire accuracy, but it can be a crucial error in terms of the state transition and ts maintenance. Therefore, we devised a confidence logic for a robust prediction, as follows [o avoid a quick state transition by outliers, the recent 3 model’s ouput probabilities (for ).3.s) are used for a prediction (Equation (2)). Then, the hands on/off state is determined by comparing a mean of those probabilities to the upper and lower thresholds (Equation (3)) The upper and lower thresholds are set after the testing of different values and designed to nore quickly detect a transition from hands on to hands off. We evaluated our model on two metrics: (1) Common classification evaluation metric; 2) HOD metric. The former means the accuracy, precision, recall, f1 score and area under the curve (AUC), which are all commonly used to evaluate a classifier. Considering the HOD problem, however, the model’s output being fast and stable is more important. These metrics cannot explain this aspect. Therefore, we newly defined that the “HOD metric” comprises the HOD accuracy and HOD time (Figure 8). A HOD accuracy is calculated based on when the state changes, and not every data sample is 0.1 s. We calculated this HOD accuracy according to the “detection time limit”, which is different from the inference ime. Regardless of how fast the model performs its calculation (inference), when the mode is detecting, the transition can vary. If the model detected a transition after 10 s from when it really occurred, it should not be considered as a right answer. Therefore, we intended a fair evaluation by setting the detection time limit. If the model detects the transition within n seconds (detection time limit) and maintains it more than a second, it is regarded as a right answer. At this moment, the difference between when the actual transition occurs and when the model detects it is defined as “HOD time”. The HOD time is suggested with a mean and standard deviation. Both the HOD accuracy and HOD time is as demonstrated in Equations (4)-(8). Bs 4 means the ith time difference between when the actual transition occurs G gt) and when ‘the model detects G, etect) (Equation (5)), and Tyop (Equation (6)) is a set of those time differences. Figure 8. An example of calculating the HOD metric. The ground truth changes at 10.4 s and our model detected it at 10.7 s. The time difference between them is HOD time. If it is shorter than the detection time limit and maintains for at least a second, it is regarded as a correct detection. Table 5. Evaluation results on the test set. End epoch of training means the last epoch at training stopped by the early stop regularization. Table 6. HOD accuracy and time on the test set (time window size = 10). The unit detection time limit and HOD time is second. Table 7. HOD accuracy and time considering state transition on the test set (time window size = 10). The unit of detection time limit and HOD time is second. Figure 9. HOD accuracy and the mean HOD time according to the detection time limit on the test set. Table 8 compares the accuracy and AUC of previous studies to our method. Early studies, which utilized the driver’s torque, did not suggest quantitative performances. As far as we know, moreover, there was no research that evaluated their method similarly to us (HOD metric). Although our model demonstrates a lower “accuracy”, it demonstrates Table 8. Comparing the performance of some methods. Ref. [16] suggested AUC for left/right hand, respectively. All figures were cited from their papers. 4.3. Driver Generalization Results Table 9. Evaluation results on the new drivers’ data. Table 10. HOD accuracy and time on the new driver data (time window size = 10). The unit of detection time limit and HOD time is second. Table 11. HOD accuracy and time considering state transition on the new driver data (time window size = 10). The unit of detection time limit and HOD time is second. Figure 11 describes the HOD accuracy and the mean HOD time according to th letection time limit with 0.1 s interval for the new drivers. Similar to the test set (Figure 9 here is an drastic increase in the HOD accuracy, of around 0.3 s, and almost the highes wccuracy at 2s.
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