Auto-focusing method for remote gaze tracking camera

Optical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Won Oh ^a   Lee, Hyeon Chang ^a   Cho, Chul Woo ^a   Gwon, Su Yeong ^a   Park, Kang Ryoung ^a   Lee, Heekyung ^b   Cha, Jihun ^b  

^a Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Auto focusing; Least squares regression; Remote gaze tracking; User dependent calibration

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUSING; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; GAZE TRACKING; GAZE TRACKING SYSTEM; LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION METHOD; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; USER-DEPENDENT;

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; ESTIMATION; FOCUSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84876853246     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.51.6.063204     Document Type: Article

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