Robust gaze-tracking method by using frontal-viewing and eye-tracking cameras

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Cho, Chul Woo ^a   Lee, Ji Woo ^a   Lee, Eui Chul ^b   Park, Kang Ryoung ^a  

^a Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^b Sangmyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

eye tracking camera; frontal viewing camera; gaze tracking; three rectangular regions

Indexed keywords

EYE-GAZE; EYE-TRACKING; EYE-TRACKING CAMERA; FACIAL AND EYE MOVEMENT; FRONTAL VIEWING CAMERA; GAZE ESTIMATION; GAZE TRACKING; GEOMETRIC CENTER; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORM; INTERNAL ANGLES; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; RECTANGULAR REGIONS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; TRACKING METHOD; TRACKING TECHNOLOGY;

EYE MOVEMENTS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 77954213623     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3275453     Document Type: Article

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