Corneal imaging revisited: An overview of corneal reflection analysis and applications

IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-18

  Nitschke, Christian ^a   Nakazawa, Atsushi ^a,b   Takemura, Haruo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catadioptric imaging; Corneal imaging; Eye gaze tracking (EGT); Geometric eye model; Human computer interaction (HCI)

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL TASK; EYE GAZE TRACKING; EYE MODEL; GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); NON-INTRUSIVE INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84881534670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18826695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2197/ipsjtcva.5.1     Document Type: Review

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