A Novel Neural Eye Gaze Tracker

Diego Torricelli, Michela Goffredo, Silvia Conforto, Maurizio Schmid, Tommaso D’Alessio

2006

Abstract

A gaze tracking system, based on a novel neural approach, is proposed. The work is part of a wider research project concerning the development of human computer interfaces (HCI) addressed to disabled people, that could overcome the drawbacks of most of the existing methods for gaze tracking that require either intrusive devices or expensive equipment. This work, instead, aims at developing a low cost, completely non-intrusive and self-calibrating system which combines different techniques for three blocks in Eye Gaze Tracking, i.e. blink detection, feature extraction and neural computing. The experimental results show good accuracy in eye gaze tracking (rmse < 1 degree), and adequate generalization performance (rmse < 2 degrees).

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Torricelli D., Goffredo M., Conforto S., Schmid M. and D’Alessio T. (2006). A Novel Neural Eye Gaze Tracker . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-67-2, pages 86-95. DOI: 10.5220/0001224300860095


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@conference{bpc06,
author={Diego Torricelli and Michela Goffredo and Silvia Conforto and Maurizio Schmid and Tommaso D’Alessio},
title={A Novel Neural Eye Gaze Tracker},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={86-95},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001224300860095},
isbn={978-972-8865-67-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2006)
TI - A Novel Neural Eye Gaze Tracker
SN - 978-972-8865-67-2
AU - Torricelli D.
AU - Goffredo M.
AU - Conforto S.
AU - Schmid M.
AU - D’Alessio T.
PY - 2006
SP - 86
EP - 95
DO - 10.5220/0001224300860095