A real-time gaze position estimation method based on a 3-D eye model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 199-212

  Park, Kang Ryoung ^a  

^a Sangmyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3 D eye position and gaze vector of eyeball; Gaze detection; Wide view and narrow view stereo cameras

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

GAZE DETECTION; GAZE POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD; SPECULAR REFLECTION PROBLEMS; STEREO CAMERAS; WIDE-VIEW CAMERA;

COMPUTER VISION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSTURE;

EID: 33847667980     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.883426     Document Type: Article

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