Early Prediction of Driver's Action Using Deep Neural Networks

Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) are one of the most widely-discussed and researched topic across the world. The researchers have focused on the early prediction of a driver's movements before drivers actually perform actions, which might suggest a driver to take a corrective action while driving and thus, avoid the risk of an accident. This article presents an improved deep-learning technique to predict a driver's action before he performs that action, a few seconds in advance. This is considering both the inside context (of the driver) and the outside context (of the road), and fuses them together to anticipate the actions. To predict the driver's action accurately, the proposed work is inspired by recent developments in recurrent neural networks (RNN) with long short term memory (LSTM) algorithms. The performance merit of the proposed algorithm is compared with four other algorithms and the results suggest that the proposed algorithm outperforms the other algorithms using a range of performance metrics.