Title
Eye gaze tracking using corneal imaging and active illumination devices.
Abstract
This paper shows a novel eye gaze tracking (EGT) technique using the corneal imaging technique. Compared to the existing pupil center and pupil reflection techniques, our approach directly finds PoG in the reflected scene image at the human corneal surface. As a result, it does not suffer from the parallax issue and does not require per-setup system calibrations. To achieve this system, we develop following techniques: First, we use the idea of the gaze-reflection point (GRP), where light from the PoG in the scene reflects at the corneal surface into an eye image. Second, illuminating the whole scene or particular objects using coded structured light enables robust and accurate matching at the GRP to obtain the PoG in a scene image. For this purpose, we show two implementations: a special high-power IR LED-array projector and active LED markers. Experimental evaluation shows that the proposed scheme achieves considerable accuracy and successfully supports depth-varying environments as well as practical applications including observation in a conversation scene. We believe the proposed EGT technique has considerably large potential to solve major issues of current EGT systems, expands the application fields of the EGT and increases the usability of interactive systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1080/01691864.2016.1277552
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Point of gaze estimation,eye gaze tracking,corneal reflection,corneal imaging
Computer vision,Eye tracking,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Active illumination
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31.0
8
0169-1864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Atsushi Nakazawa1153.59
Hiroaki Kato200.34
Christian Nitschke317612.87
Toyoaki Nishida41097196.19