Differences in the infrared bright pupil response of human eyes

  • Authors:
  • Karlene Nguyen;Cindy Wagner;David Koons;Myron Flickner

  • Affiliations:
  • UCLA;University of Waterloo;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • ETRA '02 Proceedings of the 2002 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe experiments conducted to explain observed differences in the bright pupil response of human eyes. Many people observe the bright pupil response as the red-eye effect when taking flash photography. However, there is significant variation in the magnitude of the bright pupil response across the population. Since many commercial gaze-tracking systems use the infrared bright pupil response for eye detection, a clear understanding of the magnitude and cause of the bright pupil variation gives critical insight into the robustness of gaze tracking systems. This paper documents studies we have conducted to measure the bright pupil differences using infrared light and hypothesis factors that lead to these differences.