A study on Gaze Tracking Based on Pupil Movement, Corneal Specular Reflections and Kalman Filter


The KIPS Transactions:PartB , Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 203-214, Jun. 2009
10.3745/KIPSTB.2009.16.3.203,   PDF Download:

Abstract

In this paper, we could simply compute the user's gaze position based on 2D relations between the pupil center and four corneal specular reflections formed by four IR-illuminators attached on each corner of a monitor, without considering the complex 3D relations among the camera, the monitor, and the pupil coordinates. Therefore, the objectives of our paper are to detect the pupil center and four corneal specular reflections exactly and to compensate for error factors which affect the gaze accuracy. In our method, we compensated for the kappa error between the calculated gaze position through the pupil center and actual gaze vector. We performed one time user calibration to compensate when the system started. Also, we robustly detected four corneal specular reflections that were important to calculate gaze position based on Kalman filter irrespective of the abrupt change of eye movement. Experimental results showed that the gaze detection error was about 1.0 degrees though there was the abrupt change of eye movement.


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[IEEE Style]
Y. J. Ko, E. C. Lee, K. R. Park, "A study on Gaze Tracking Based on Pupil Movement, Corneal Specular Reflections and Kalman Filter," The KIPS Transactions:PartB , vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 203-214, 2009. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTB.2009.16.3.203.

[ACM Style]
You Jin Ko, Eui Chul Lee, and Kang Ryoung Park. 2009. A study on Gaze Tracking Based on Pupil Movement, Corneal Specular Reflections and Kalman Filter. The KIPS Transactions:PartB , 16, 3, (2009), 203-214. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTB.2009.16.3.203.