Title
Evolutionary adaptive eye tracking for low-cost human computer interaction applications
Abstract
We present an evolutionary adaptive eye-tracking framework aiming for low-cost human computer interaction. The main focus is to guarantee eye-tracking performance without using high-cost devices and strongly controlled situations. The performance optimization of eye tracking is formulated into the dynamic control problem of deciding on an eye tracking algorithm structure and associated thresholds/parameters, where the dynamic control space is denoted by genotype and phenotype spaces. The evolutionary algorithm is responsible for exploring the genotype control space, and the reinforcement learning algorithm organizes the evolved genotype into a reactive phenotype. The evolutionary algorithm encodes an eye-tracking scheme as a genetic code based on image variation analysis. Then, the reinforcement learning algorithm defines internal states in a phenotype control space limited by the perceived genetic code and carries out interactive adaptations. The proposed method can achieve optimal performance by compromising the difficulty in the real-time performance of the evolutionary algorithm and the drawback of the huge search space of the reinforcement learning algorithm. Extensive experiments were carried out using webcam image sequences and yielded very encouraging results. The framework can be readily applied to other low-cost vision-based human computer interactions in solving their intrinsic brittleness in unstable operational environments. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1117/1.JEI.22.1.013031
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Eye tracking,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Reinforcement learning algorithm,Evolutionary programming,Population-based incremental learning,Machine learning
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1017-9909
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
30
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Shen110.69
Hak Chul Shin210.35
Won Jun Sung391.67
Sarang Khim451.43
Honglak Kim510.35
Phill Kyu Rhee66024.82