Real-time facial and eye gaze tracking system

Kang Ryoung Park, Jaihie Kim

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Abstract

The goal of gaze detection is to locate the position (on a monitor) where a user is looking. Previous researches use one wide view camera, which can capture the user's entire face. However, the image resolution is too low with such a camera and the fine movements of user's eye cannot be exactly detected. So, we propose the new gaze detection system with dual cameras (a wide and a narrow view camera). In order to locate the user's eye position accurately, the narrow-view camera has the functionalities of auto focusing/panning/tilting based on the detected 3D eye positions from the wide view camera. In addition, we use the IR-LED illuminators for wide and narrow view camera, which can ease the detecting of facial features, pupil and iris position. To overcome the problem of specular reflection on glasses by illuminator, we use dual IR-LED illuminators for wide and narrow view camera and detect the accurate eye position, which is not hidden by the specular reflection. Experimental results show that the gaze detection error between the computed positions and the real ones is about 2.89 cm of RMS error.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1231-1238
Number of pages8
JournalIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
VolumeE88-D
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2005

Keywords

  • Dual cameras
  • Dual IR-LED illuminators
  • Gaze detection

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