Do-It-yourself eye tracker: low-cost pupil-based eye tracker for computer graphics applications

Authors:
Radosław Mantiuk;Michał Kowalik;Adam Nowosielski;Bartosz Bazyluk
Affiliations:
Faculty of Computer Science, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland;Faculty of Computer Science, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland;Faculty of Computer Science, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland;Faculty of Computer Science, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
Venue:
MMM'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling
Year:
2012

Citing 10
Cited 0

Keeping an Eye for HCI

SIBGRAPI '99 Proceedings of the XII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Gaze-directed Adaptive Rendering for Interacting with Virtual Space

VRAIS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS 96)
The determinants of web page viewing behavior: an eye-tracking study

Proceedings of the 2004 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
openEyes: a low-cost head-mounted eye-tracking solution

Proceedings of the 2006 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
Eye Tracking Methodology: Theory and Practice

Eye Tracking Methodology: Theory and Practice
EyeSecret: an inexpensive but high performance auto-calibration eye tracker

Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
Low-cost gaze interaction: ready to deliver the promises

CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Eye gaze tracking techniques for interactive applications

Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special issue on eye detection and tracking
Evaluation of a low-cost open-source gaze tracker

Proceedings of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications
Gaze-Dependent depth-of-field effect rendering in virtual environments

SGDA'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Serious Games Development and Applications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Eye tracking technologies offer sophisticated methods for capturing humans' gaze direction but their popularity in multimedia and computer graphics systems is still low. One of the main reasons for this are the high cost of commercial eye trackers that comes to 25,000 euros. Interestingly, this price seems to stem from the costs incurred in research rather than the value of used hardware components. In this work we show that an eye tracker of a satisfactory precision can be built in the budget of 30 euros. In the paper detailed instruction on how to construct a low cost pupil-based eye tracker and utilise open source software to control its behaviour is presented. We test the accuracy of our eye tracker and reveal that its precision is comparable to commercial video-based devices.