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Opengazer: open-source gaze tracker for ordinary webcams

Opengazer: open-source gaze tracker for ordinary webcams

PyGaze | projects Welcome to the PyGaze projects page! Here you will find all sorts of information, source code, and demonstrations of the stuff that we're currently working on at PyGaze HQ. We love to share our interest in science and technology with you! Most of this stuff is closely related to PyGaze, and gives a good idea of how you can use the toolbox. current projects PyGazeAnalyser Analysis of eye-tracking data without having to buy an expensive software package, or relying on a commercial party? eye tracker An eye tracker needn't be expensive! mantis shrimp This isn't really a project, but more of an homage to a creature with a truly incredible pair of eyes. news Sun. 2 March 2014 We have added a new project, and it's a big one! Sun. 12 January 2014 Because we can write about whatever we please: an ode to the mantis shrimp!

ITU Gaze Tracker The ITU Gaze Tracker is an open-source eye tracker that aims to provide a low-cost alternative to commercial gaze tracking systems and to make this technology more accessible. It is developed by the Gaze Group at the IT University of Copenhagen and other contributors from the community, with the support of the Communication by Gaze Interaction Association (COGAIN). The eye tracking software is video-based, and any camera equipped with infrared nightvision can be used, such as a videocamera or a webcam. The cameras that have been tested with the system can be found in our forum. We encourage users and developers to test our software with their cameras and provide feedback so we can continue development. The ITU Gaze Tracker is hosted in SourceForge. In order to run the software, uncompress the zip file and double click on GazeTrackerUI.exe. The user's guide to run and configure the ITU Gaze Tracker can be downloaded from here (PDF document) The requirements to run the ITU Gaze Tracker are:

TrackEye : Real-Time Tracking Of Human Eyes Using a Webcam Introduction Eyes are the most important features of the human face. So effective usage of eye movements as a communication technique in user-to-computer interfaces can find place in various application areas. Eye tracking and the information provided by the eye features have the potential to become an interesting way of communicating with a computer in a human-computer interaction (HCI) system. So with this motivation, designing a real-time eye feature tracking software is the aim of this project. The purpose of the project is to implement a real-time eye-feature tracker with the following capabilities: RealTime face tracking with scale and rotation invariance Tracking the eye areas individually Tracking eye features Eye gaze direction finding Remote controlling using eye movements Instructions to Run and Rebuild TrackEye Installation Instructions Extract TrackEye_Executable.zip file. Settings to be Done to Perform a Good Tracking Settings for Face & Eye Detection Settings for Snake History

Weekend Project: Take a Tour of Open Source Eye-Tracking Software Right this very second, you are looking at a Web browser. At least, those are the odds. But while that's mildly interesting to me, detailed data on where users look (and for how long) is mission-critical. The categories mentioned above do a fairly clean job of dividing up the eye-tracking projects. For example, there are eye-tracking projects designed to work with standard, run-of-the-mill Web cams (like those that come conveniently attached to the top edge of so many laptops), and those meant to be used with a specialty, head-mounted apparatus. Many projects have a particular use-case in mind, but with the ready availability of Webcams, developers are exploring alternative uses suitable for gaming, gesture-input, and all sorts of crazy ideas. Tracking Eye Movement With a Webcam On the inexpensive end of the hardware spectrum are those projects that implement eye-tracking using a standard-issue Webcam. OpenGazer is by far the simplest such project to get started with. Looking Ahead

Eye tracking Measuring the point of gaze or motion of an eye relative to the head Edmund Huey[2] built an early eye tracker, using a sort of contact lens with a hole for the pupil. The lens was connected to an aluminum pointer that moved in response to the movement of the eye. Huey studied and quantified regressions (only a small proportion of saccades are regressions), and he showed that some words in a sentence are not fixated. The first non-intrusive eye-trackers were built by Guy Thomas Buswell in Chicago, using beams of light that were reflected on the eye, then recording on film. In the 1950s, Alfred L. All the records ... show conclusively that the character of the eye movement is either completely independent of or only very slightly dependent on the material of the picture and how it was made, provided that it is flat or nearly flat Records of eye movements show that the observer's attention is usually held only by certain elements of the picture.... Eye-attached tracking [edit]

Eye Trackers - COGAIN: Communication by Gaze Interaction (hosted by the COGAIN Association) From COGAIN: Communication by Gaze Interaction (hosted by the COGAIN Association) A catalogue of currently available eye trackers, categorized into systems for assistive technology, research purposes etc. Eye Trackers for Assistive Technology and AAC Commercial eye tracking systems that are used for controlling a computer or as communication aids by people with disabilities. Eyetrackers for eye movement research, analysis and evaluation AmTech GmbH, Compact Intergrated Pupillograph (CIP), Pupillograhic Sleepiness Test (PST), table mounted, monocular, video based systems Applied Science Laboratories, ASL, eye tracking and pupillometry systems, both IROG (limbus tracker) and VOG (video) based systems, both head mounted and remote tracking, also mobile tracking! Open source gaze tracking and freeware eye tracking This list contains low-cost, free and open source eye tracking systems and research prototypes, and information that should help in building your own eye tracker. See also

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