Occupant Classification for Smart Airbag Using Stereovision and Support Vector Machines

摘要

Airbag in the cars plays an important role for the safety of occupants. However, Highway Traffic Safety report shows that many occupants are actually killed by wrong deployment of the airbags. For reducing risk caused by air-bag, designing a smart airbag is an important issue. The present paper describes an occupant classification system, by which triggering of the airbag deployment can be controlled. The system consists of a pair of stereo cameras and a S VM classifier. Performance of the system shows its feasibility as a vision-based air-bag controller.