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An approach to the teleimmersive videoconferencing system enhanced by the pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera, controlled by the eye-gaze tracking system, is presented in this paper. An overview of the existing telepresence systems, especially dedicated to videoconferencing is included. The presented approach is based on the CyberEye eye-gaze tracking system engineered at the Multimedia Systems Department (MSD) of Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), as well as on a standard PTZ security camera communicating with the computer by the TCP/IP protocol. Technical aspects of the developed system prototype including two different use cases (one-way and two-way configuration of system) are described. Moreover, a discussion related to the gathered user’s experience as well as to difficulties and opportunities concerning the proposed approach are included.
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Kunka, B., Korzeniewski, A., Kostek, B., Czyżewski, A. (2014). Eye-Gaze Tracking-Based Telepresence System for Videoconferencing. In: Ślȩzak, D., Schaefer, G., Vuong, S.T., Kim, YS. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09912-5_36
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