A neural-based remote eye gaze tracker under natural head motion

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-78

  Torricelli, Diego ^a   Conforto, Silvia ^a   Schmid, Maurizio ^a   D'Alessio, Tommaso ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye detection; Eye gaze tracking; Human machine interaction; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EYE DETECTION; EYE GAZE; EYE GAZE TRACKING; FEATURE DETECTION; GAZE DIRECTION; GRAPHICAL INTERFACES; HEAD MOTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION CAMERAS; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; INFRARED ILLUMINATION; LIGHT CONDITIONS; LOW COSTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NON LINEARITIES; SPECIFIC HARDWARE; VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EYE TRACKING; EYELID REFLEX; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IRIS; LIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN;

FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PUPIL;

EID: 49949105826     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.06.008     Document Type: Article

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