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A Wearable Gaze Tracking System for Children in Unconstrained Environments

Noris, Basilio  
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Keller, Jean-Baptiste
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Billard, Aude  
2011
Computer Vision and Image Understanding

We present here a head-mounted gaze tracking system for the study of visual behavior in unconstrained environments. The system is designed both for adults and for infants as young as 1 year of age. The system uses two CCD cameras to record a very wide field of view (96° x 96°) that allows to study both central and peripheral vision. A small motor-driven mirror allows to obtain the direction of the wearer's gaze with no need for active lighting and with little intrusiveness. The calibration of the system is done offine allowing experiments to be conducted with subjects who cannot cooperate in a calibration phase (e.g. very young children, animals). We use illumination normalization to increase the robustness of the system, and eye blinking detection to avoid tracking errors. We use Support Vector Regression to estimate a mapping between the appearance of the eyes and the corresponding gaze direction. The system can be used successfully indoors as well as outdoors and reaches an accuracy of 1.59° with adults and 2.42° with children.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.cviu.2010.11.013
Web of Science ID

WOS:000288283100002

Author(s)
Noris, Basilio  
Keller, Jean-Baptiste
Billard, Aude  
Date Issued

2011

Published in
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Volume

115

Issue

4

Start page

476

End page

486

Subjects

Gaze Tracking

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Appearance Based

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Lay Users

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Children

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Eye Blinking

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Unconstrained Environments

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Support Vector Regression

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REVIEWED

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March 10, 2010
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