Recognizing drivers' sleep onset by detecting slow eye movement using a parallel multimodal one-dimensional convolutional neural network

Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2025 Jan 29:1-15. doi: 10.1080/10255842.2025.2456996. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

Slow eye movements (SEMs) are a reliable physiological marker of drivers' sleep onset, often accompanied by EEG alpha wave attenuation. A parallel multimodal 1D convolutional neural network (PM-1D-CNN) model is proposed to classify SEMs. The model uses two parallel 1D-CNN blocks to extract features from EOG and EEG signals, which are then fused and fed into fully connected layers for classification. Results show that the PM-1D-CNN outperforms the SGL-1D-CNN and Bimodal-LSTM networks in both subject-to-subject and cross-subject evaluations, confirming its effectiveness in detecting sleep onset.

Keywords: Slow eye movements (SEMs); drivers’ sleep onset; electroencephalograph (EEG); electrooculogram (EOG); one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN).