Gaze tracking system for teleoperation

Author

Mingxin Yu ; Xiangzhou Wang ; Yingzi Lin ; Xiaoping Bai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Autom., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

May 31 2014-June 2 2014

Firstpage

4617

Lastpage

4622

Abstract

Conventional control interfaces such as joystick, keyboard, and mouse are widely used in teleoperation. However, they are not operated by some users such as who have disabled hands. This paper proposed an eye gaze tracking system for teleoperation. The eye gaze tracking system is based on non-intrusive, visible light, iris center corneal reflection (ICCR) and 2-D mapping-based gaze estimation. In addition, this paper also presented a simple and effective 2-D mapping-based calibration method in order to users with head movement. The calibration verification of five users shows the average errors of our proposed gaze tracker on the x- and y directions are 13.3 and 16.4 pixels, respectively. Through the teleoperation test of robotic car within fixed experimental area, the gaze tracking system achieved a good control result.

Keywords

automobiles; gaze tracking; iris recognition; mobile robots; robot vision; telerobotics; 2D mapping-based calibration method; 2D mapping-based gaze estimation; ICCR; gaze tracking system; head movement; iris center corneal reflection; robotic car; teleoperation test; Calibration; Cameras; Computers; Image edge detection; Iris; Robots; Tracking; ICCR; gaze tracking; teleoperation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Decision Conference (2014 CCDC), The 26th Chinese

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3707-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCDC.2014.6852997

Filename

6852997