In this paper, we propose an efficient measurement of the eye blinking for drowsy driver detection system that is one of the driver safety systems for the intelligent vehicle. However, during the real driving in the daytime, driver’s face is exposed to various illuminations. It makes too difficult to monitor driver’s eye blinking. Therefore, we propose efficient formation of the cascaded form o...

Blinking is a phenomenon observed in single quantum emitters, which reduces their overall light emission. Even though it seems to be a fundamental property of quantum dots (QDs), substantial differences can be found in the blinking statistics of different nanocrystals. This work compares the blinking of numerous single, oxide-capped Si nanocrystals with that of CdSe/ZnS core-shell nanocrystals,...

This talk discusses the influence of network structure on the dynamics of networks with fast on-off stochastic connections. It is investigated to what extent the trajectories of a stochastically switched (blinking) network follow the corresponding trajectories of its averaged analog where the stochastic connection are replaced with static ones. Four cases have to be distinguished, depending on ...

A wide variety of movement disorders can be induced by the administration of antiepileptic drugs. A 44-year-old female was admitted with involuntary excessive eye blinking that manifested 5 months after beginning the administration of lamotrigine for control of complex partial and secondarily generalized seizures. The involuntary eye blinking persisted while taking lamotrigine, and disappeared ...

Blinking is a normal human phenomenon involving trigeminal and facial pathways. To gain understanding on the neurobiology of blinking, five normal subjects were investigated before and after application of transdermal capsaicin at the forehead for two weeks. No effects of topical capsaicin were detected in eye blink rates. However, when capsaicin was applied to a female subject with blepharospa...

We study how retardation leads to interference effects in radiatively coupled plasmonic nanoparticles. We show that inclined illumination through a glass substrate on two plasmonic particles results in either an enhanced field or an attenuated field localized at the position of the first particle. Periodic intensity blinking of the first particle is observed as a function of the particle separa...

The electrooculogram (EOG) of voluntary eye blinking is a distinguishable one among other eye blinking types such as spontaneous or reflexive blinking. In our study, we aimed to measure/detect the EOG of voluntary blinking during Echo Planar Imaging in the MR scanner. After the pulse artifact removal in the EOG signal, the waveform of EOG can clearly show voluntary eye blinking and this was equ...

Although we blink every 4 to 6 seconds, we notice neither the act of blinking nor the mini-blackouts they cause. A new study using imaging techniques identifies the neural structures in humans involved in suppressing vision processing and visual awareness during blinking.