A REMOTE GAZE TRACKING SYSTEM USING GRAY-DISTRIBUTION-BASED VIDEO PROCESSING

作者:Yang Xiao Hui; Sun Jian De*; Liu Ju; Li Xin Chao; Yang Cai Xia; Liu Wei
来源:Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications, 2012, 24(3): 217-227.
DOI:10.1142/S1016237212500044

摘要

Gaze tracking has drawn increasing attention and applied wildly in the areas of disabled aids, medical diagnosis, etc. In this paper, a remote gaze tracking system is proposed. The system is video-based, and the video is captured under the illumination of near infrared light sources. Only one camera is employed in the system, which keeps the equipment portable for the users. The corneal glints and the pupil center, whose extraction accuracy determines the performance of the gaze tracking system, are obtained according to the gray distribution of the video frame. And then, the positions of the points on the screen that the user fixating are estimated by the gaze tracking algorithm based on cross-ratio-invariant. Additionally, a calibration procedure is necessary to eliminate the error produced by the deviation of the optical and visual axes. The proposed remote gaze tracking system has a low computational complexity and high robustness, and experiment results indicate that it is tolerant of head movement and still works well for users wearing glasses as well. Besides, the angle error of the gaze tracking system is 0.40 degree of the subjects without glasses, correspondingly, 0.48 degree of the subjects with glasses, which is comparable to most of the existing commercial systems and promising for most of the potential practical applications.

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