A simple eye-gaze detecting function for touch-typing training system

Author

Imamura, Takaaki ; Nagai, Takayuki ; Nakano, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Kumamoto Univ., Kumamoto, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We have been developing a typing training system and we tried to support touch-typing training, where eye-gaze must be detected for checking the trainee is not looking at the keyboard. The eye-gaze detecting function was designed to use a normal PC with a built-in or general USB camera and to discriminate at least whether the trainee is looking at the display or the keyboard in real-time. We developed simple and quick discriminating method consisting two stages. The first stage is detecting eye regions by template matching, and the second stage is discriminating eye-gaze by shape matching. After a short-time calibration for making the trainee´s own template image and determining the threshold for shape matching, the eye-gaze is successfully detected more than 15 times per a second.

Keywords

calibration; computer based training; eye; image matching; keyboards; USB camera; discriminating method; eye region detection; eye-gaze detecting function; eye-gaze discrimination; keyboard; shape matching; short-time calibration; template matching; touch-typing training system; Accuracy; Calibration; Educational institutions; Keyboards; Real time systems; Shape; Training; OpenCV; computer vision; eye-gaze detecting; touch typing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

2165-9559

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1457-2

Electronic_ISBN

2165-9559

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201084

Filename

6201084