Dr. Angelos Barmpoutis of the Digital Worlds Institute and the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida and his team (Dr. Alexandra Kondyli, University of Kansas; and Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku, University of Alabama at Birmingham)  have developed a Drivers’ Motion Depth Database (DMDDB) with funding from the STRIDE Center, a 2012 U.S. Department of Transportation grant funded, regional (Southeastern) University Transportation Center (UTC)  house at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI).  What is the DMDDB? It is an open-access database that contains depth video sequences of drivers performing merges and lane changes in freeway and rural segments in the area of Gainesville, Fla. The 3D motion of drivers has been captured in the database in more than 300,000 depth frames that can be browsed and analyzed using a simple programming interface.This webinar will present the technologies that were employed in making this database, demonstrate how this database can be used as a resource in future research projects, and discuss the results of a research study that utilized this dataset for performing statistical analysis of the drivers’ body motion patterns.

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