A real-time robust eye tracking system for autostereoscopic displays using stereo cameras

Author

SU, Chan-Hung ; Yong-Sheng Chen ; Hung, Yi-Ping ; Chen, Chu-Song ; Chen, Jiun-Hung

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. Sci., Acad. Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

1677

Abstract

Autostereoscopic display systems can provide users a natural 3D visualization environment by projecting stereo video onto the user´s eyes. Eye position localization is a central module in this kind of display system when users are allowed to move freely. This paper presents robust 3D eye tracking techniques that can provide accurate eye positions in real time. Technical batteries comprise: (1) robust face detection based on eigenspace method; (2) real-time face tracking; and (3) eye detection in the obtained face region. According to our implementation on a PC with a Pentium IV 1.2 GHz CPU, the frame rate of the eye tracking process can achieve 25 Hz.

Keywords

display instrumentation; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; face recognition; real-time systems; stereo image processing; target tracking; three-dimensional displays; user interfaces; 1.2 GHz; 3D eye tracking technique; 3D visualization; autostereoscopic displays; display system; eigenspace method; eye detection; eye position localization; eye tracking process; eye tracking system; face detection; frame rate; real time face tracking; stereo cameras; stereo video; Cameras; Computer displays; Computer science; Eyes; Face detection; Humans; Infrared sensors; Real time systems; Robustness; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7736-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1241835

Filename

1241835