This study investigates the influence of the eye-camera location associated with the accuracy and precision of interpolation-based eye-tracking methods. Several factors can negatively influence gaze estimation methods when building a commercial or off-the-shelf eye tracker device, including the eye-camera location in uncalibrated setups. Our experiments show that the eye-camera location combined with the non-coplanarity of the eye plane deforms the eye feature distribution when the camera is far from the eye's optical axis. This paper proposes geometric transformation methods to reshape the eye feature distribution based on the virtual alignment of the eye-camera in the center of the eye's optical axis. The data analysis uses eye-tracking data from a simulated environment and an experiment with 83 volunteer participants (55 males and 28 females). We evaluate the improvements achieved with the proposed methods using Gaussian analysis, which defines a range for high-accuracy gaze estimation between −0.5º and +0.5º. Compared to traditional polynomial-based and homography-based gaze estimation methods, the proposed methods increase the number of gaze estimations in the high-accuracy range.


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    Title :

    High-Accuracy Gaze Estimation for Interpolation-Based Eye-Tracking Methods



    Publication date :

    2021-09-15


    Remarks:

    Batista Narcizo , F , dos Santos , F E D & Hansen , D W 2021 , ' High-Accuracy Gaze Estimation for Interpolation-Based Eye-Tracking Methods ' , Vision , vol. 5 , no. 3 , pp. 1 . https://doi.org/10.3390/vision5030041



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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