CALIBRATION-FREE EYE GAZE DIRECTION DETECTION WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES

Basilio Noris, Karim Benmachiche, Aude G. Billard

2008

Abstract

In this paper we present a solution for eye gaze detection from a wireless head mounted camera designed for children aged between 6 months and 18 months. Due to the constraints of working with very young children, the system does not seek to be as accurate as other state-of-the-art eye trackers, however it requires no calibration process from the wearer. Gaussian Process Regression and Support Vector Machines are used to analyse the raw pixel data from the video input and return an estimate of the child’s gaze direction. A confidence map is used to determine the accuracy the system can expect for each coordinate on the image. The best accuracy so far obtained by the system is 2.34◦ on adult subjects, tests with children remain to be done.

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in Harvard Style

Noris B., Benmachiche K. and G. Billard A. (2008). CALIBRATION-FREE EYE GAZE DIRECTION DETECTION WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 611-616. DOI: 10.5220/0001082706110616


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp08,
author={Basilio Noris and Karim Benmachiche and Aude G. Billard},
title={CALIBRATION-FREE EYE GAZE DIRECTION DETECTION WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={611-616},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001082706110616},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - CALIBRATION-FREE EYE GAZE DIRECTION DETECTION WITH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Noris B.
AU - Benmachiche K.
AU - G. Billard A.
PY - 2008
SP - 611
EP - 616
DO - 10.5220/0001082706110616