Discrete eye tracking for medical applications

Author

Raudonis, Vidas ; Simutis, Rimvydas ; Narvydas, Gintautas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Process Control, Kaunas Univ. of Technol., Kaunas, Lithuania

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The novel technology, which is dedicated to assist the person with disabilities, is presented in the work. It is the discrete eye tracking system which recognizes the users command from voluntary controlled eye motion. The user wears the head mounted device, which consist of glasses with fixed on it video camera. The system was tested with three on-line applications. First - the control of the mobile robot in the maze, second, application is the text writing program Â¿EyeWriterÂ¿ and third computer game. Over 25 commands per second can be generated using presented eye tracking system.

Keywords

handicapped aids; image processing; medical computing; medical control systems; target tracking; EyeWriter text writing program; computer game task; disabled person assistance; discrete eye tracking system; head mounted device; medical applications; mobile robot control; video camera; voluntary controlled eye motion; Application software; Biomedical equipment; Control systems; Glass; Head; Medical control systems; Medical services; Motion control; Robot vision systems; Tracking; and medical application; eye tracking system; human computer interaction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2009. ISABEL 2009. 2nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bratislava

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4640-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4641-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISABEL.2009.5373675

Filename

5373675