Evaluation of pupil center-eye corner vector for gaze estimation using a web cam

  • Authors:
  • Laura Sesma;Arantxa Villanueva;Rafael Cabeza

  • Affiliations:
  • Public University of Navarra;Public University of Navarra;Public University of Navarra

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Low cost eye tracking is an actual challenging research topic for the eye tracking community. Gaze tracking based on a web cam and without infrared light is a searched goal to broaden the applications of eye tracking systems. Web cam based eye tracking results in new challenges to solve such as a wider field of view and a lower image quality. In addition, no infrared light implies that glints cannot be used anymore as a tracking feature. In this paper, a thorough study has been carried out to evaluate pupil (iris) center-eye corner (PC-EC) vector as feature for gaze estimation based on interpolation methods in low cost eye tracking, as it is considered to be partially equivalent to the pupil center-corneal reflection (PC-CR) vector. The analysis is carried out both based on simulated and real data. The experiments show that eye corner positions in the image move slightly when the user is looking at different points of the screen, even with a static head position. This lowers the possible accuracy of the gaze estimation, significantly reducing the accuracy of the system under standard working conditions to 2--3 degrees.