Powered wheelchair controlled by eye-tracking system

Optica Applicata

Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 401-412

  Lin, Chern Sheng ^a   Ho, Chien Wa ^b   Chen, Wen Chen ^a   Chiu, Chuang Chien ^a   Yeh, Mau Shiun ^c  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Eye tracking system; New calibration algorithm; Powered wheelchair

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CCD CAMERAS; EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

EYE TRACKING SYSTEM; NEW CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; POWERED WHEELCHAIR;

WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 38549116527     PISSN: 00785466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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