The invention discloses a driving safety monitoring system based on face orientation and visual focus, which comprises a vision sensor and an intelligent processor. The intelligent processor comprises an image acquisition module, a complexion area detection module, an edge extraction module, an eye detection module, a face orientation analysis module and a driver safety driving judgment module, wherein the complexion area detection module is used for converting an RGB color space into a YCrCb color space and detecting a complexion area; the edge extraction module is used for adopting a Canny operator to carry out edge extraction so as to acquire a head image outline; the eye detection module is used for carrying out Hough conversion for the marginalized face and positioning eyes; the face orientation analysis module is used for determining a mouth area, positioning the mouth, calculating left and right areas of the face respectively by using the eyes and the mouth as reference, and calculating the ratio of the left and right areas of the face; and the driver safety driving judgment module is used for judging an unsafe driving state if the calculated ratio of the left and right areas of the current face is out of a preset interval according to the preset interval of the ratio of the left and right areas of the face, and sending out an alarm command. The driving safety monitoring system has strong capacity of resisting disturbance and high accuracy.