A Model for Inebriation Recognition in Humans Using Computer Vision

Abstract

The cost of substance use regarding lives lost, medical and psychiatric morbidity and social disruptions by far surpasses the economic costs. Alcohol abuse and dependence has been a social issue in need of addressing for centuries now. Methods exist that attempt to solve this problem by recognizing inebriation in humans. These methods include the use of blood tests, breathalyzers, urine tests, ECGs and wearables devices. Although effective, these methods are very inconvenient for the user, and the required equipment is expensive. We propose a method that provides a faster and convenient way to recognize inebriation. Our method uses Viola-Jones-based face-detection for the region of interest. The face images become input to a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) which attempts to classify inebriation. In order to test our model’s performance against other methods, we implemented Local Binary Patterns (LBP) for feature extraction, and Support Vector Machines (SVM), Gaussian Naive Bayes (GNB) and k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classifiers. Our model had an accuracy rate of 84.31% and easily outperformed the other methods.