Non-contact eye gaze tracking system by mapping of corneal reflections

Author

Yoo, Dong Hyun ; Kim, Jae Heon ; Lee, Bang Rae ; Chung, Myoung Jin

Author_Institution

Div. of Elec. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2002

Firstpage

94

Lastpage

99

Abstract

In this paper, we suggest a new system to estimate the direction of a user´s eye gaze. Our system consisted of five IR LEDs and a CCD camera. The IR LEDs, which are attached to the corners of a computer monitor, make glints on the surface of the cornea of the eye. If the user sees the monitor, the center of a pupil is always in a polygon that is made by the glints. Consequently, the direction of the user´s eye gaze can be computed without computing the geometrical relation between the eye, the camera and the monitor in 3D space. Our method is comparatively simple and fast. We introduce the method and show some experimental results

Keywords

CCD image sensors; computer displays; computer vision; eye; gesture recognition; light emitting diodes; light reflection; optical tracking; CCD camera; IR LED; computer monitor; corneal reflection mapping; eye gaze direction estimation; glints; noncontact eye gaze tracking system; polygon; pupil center; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Computerized monitoring; Cornea; Humans; Lenses; Light emitting diodes; Mice; Optical reflection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2002. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1602-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFGR.2002.1004139

Filename

1004139