Eye gaze estimation from the elliptical features of one iris

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Wen ^a   Zhang, Tai Ning ^a   Chang, Sheng Jiang ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

central projection; ellipse fitting; eye gaze; iris contour; neural network; translation estimation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUXILIARY LIGHT; BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; CENTRAL PROJECTION; COMPLEX COMPUTATION; ELLIPSE FITTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EYE-GAZE; GAZE DIRECTION; IMAGE INFORMATION; IRIS CONTOUR; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MULTIPLE CAMERAS; PROJECTION METHOD; ROTATION VECTOR; SAMPLE COLLECTION;

AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT; ESTIMATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIGHT SOURCES; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROTATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 81755185904     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3562327     Document Type: Article

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