Intuitive interface through active 3D gaze tracking

Author

Atienza, Rowel ; Zelinsky, Alexander

fYear

2005

fDate

19-21 May 2005

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

21

Abstract

Our interaction with machines is always severely constrained by unnatural interfaces such as mouse, keyboard and joystick. Such interfaces make it difficult for us to convey our ideas in order for computers to understand and perform our intended tasks. In this research, our aim is to build systems that use natural human actions as interfaces. In particular we exploit gaze to track a person´s focus of attention. We present an active gaze tracking system that enables a user to instruct a robot arm to pick up and hand over an object placed arbitrarily in 3D space. Our system determines the precise 3D position of the object of unknown size, shape and color by following the person´s steady gaze.

Keywords

gesture recognition; human computer interaction; manipulators; object detection; tracking; user interfaces; 3D space; active 3D gaze tracking system; intuitive human-machine interface; natural human actions; robot arm; Australia; Cameras; Face detection; Focusing; Human robot interaction; Magnetic heads; Man machine systems; Mice; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Active Media Technology, 2005. (AMT 2005). Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9035-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMT.2005.1505258

Filename

1505258