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EyeSecret: an inexpensive but high performance auto-calibration eye tracker

Published: 26 March 2008 Publication History

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With the aim to provide an inexpensive but high performance real-time head mounted eye tracker, named EyeSecret, we present a novel system derived from openEyes which share the common idea to integrated Eye tracker to everyday life and reach its full potential. To obtain the robustness, intrusiveness and accuracy from relative low-cost and off-the-shelf components, we developed the system by parallel hardware and software design. We employed reverse engineering and the rapid prototyping design and manufacturing as a measurement of head gear designing; moreover, two sets of auto-calibration plans were introduced to automatically acquire the coordinates of calibration markers in real scene, and we also improved infrared (IR) source and implemented laser to get qualified image and facilitates the eye tracker. Our system can reliably estimate eye position with normal head motion indoors or outdoors and reach an accuracy of approximately 1° visual angle, ±30° horizontal FOV (Field of View) and ±25° vertical FOV.

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Dongheng Li, Babcock, J., Parkhurst, D. J. 2006. openEyes: A low-cost head-mounted eye-tracking solution. In Proceedings of the ACM 2006 Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium. 95--114.
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ETRA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
March 2008
285 pages
ISBN:9781595939821
DOI:10.1145/1344471
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Published: 26 March 2008

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  1. auto-calibration
  2. eye-tracking
  3. head gear
  4. rapid prototyping design and manufacturing

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ETRA '08: Eye Tracking Research and Applications
March 26 - 28, 2008
Georgia, Savannah

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