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Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers
Sept. 2012 (vol. 11 no. 9)
pp. 1426-1440
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Jie Yang, Simon Sidhom, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Hongbo Liu, Nicolae Cecan, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Richard P. Martin, "Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1426-1440, Sept., 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TMC.2012.92,
author = {Jie Yang and Simon Sidhom and Gayathri Chandrasekaran and Tam Vu and Hongbo Liu and Nicolae Cecan and Yingying Chen and Marco Gruteser and Richard P. Martin},
title = {Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
volume = {11},
number = {9},
issn = {1536-1233},
year = {2012},
pages = {1426-1440},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2012.92},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
TI - Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers
IS - 9
SN - 1536-1233
SP1426
EP1440
EPD - 1426-1440
A1 - Jie Yang,
A1 - Simon Sidhom,
A1 - Gayathri Chandrasekaran,
A1 - Tam Vu,
A1 - Hongbo Liu,
A1 - Nicolae Cecan,
A1 - Yingying Chen,
A1 - Marco Gruteser,
A1 - Richard P. Martin,
PY - 2012
KW - Smart phones
KW - Distance measurement
KW - Microphones
KW - Acoustics
KW - Bluetooth
KW - Cellular phones
KW - Noise measurement
KW - Vehicle safety
KW - location classification.
KW - Driving safety
KW - driver phone use
KW - smartphone
KW - car speakers
KW - bluetooth
KW - acoustic ranging
VL - 11
JA - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
ER -
 
Jie Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Simon Sidhom, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Rutgers University, North Brunswick
Tam Vu, Rutgers University, North Brunswick
Hongbo Liu, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Nicolae Cecan, Rutgers University, North Brunswick
Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University, North Brunswick
Richard P. Martin, Rutgers University, Piscataway
This work addresses the fundamental problem of distinguishing between a driver and passenger using a mobile phone, which is the critical input to enable numerous safety and interface enhancements. Our detection system leverages the existing car stereo infrastructure, in particular, the speakers and Bluetooth network. Our acoustic approach has the phone send a series of customized high frequency beeps via the car stereo. The beeps are spaced in time across the left, right, and if available, front and rear speakers. After sampling the beeps, we use a sequential change-point detection scheme to time their arrival, and then use a differential approach to estimate the phone's distance from the car's center. From these differences a passenger or driver classification can be made. To validate our approach, we experimented with two kinds of phones and in two different cars. We found that our customized beeps were imperceptible to most users, yet still playable and recordable in both cars. Our customized beeps were also robust to background sounds such as music and wind, and we found the signal processing did not require excessive computational resources. In spite of the cars' heavy multipath environment, our approach had a classification accuracy of over 90 percent, and around 95 percent with some calibrations. We also found, we have a low false positive rate, on the order of a few percent.

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Index Terms:
Smart phones,Distance measurement,Microphones,Acoustics,Bluetooth,Cellular phones,Noise measurement,Vehicle safety,location classification.,Driving safety,driver phone use,smartphone,car speakers,bluetooth,acoustic ranging
Citation:
Jie Yang, Simon Sidhom, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Hongbo Liu, Nicolae Cecan, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Richard P. Martin, "Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1426-1440, Sept. 2012, doi:10.1109/TMC.2012.92
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