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A Study on Real Time Gaze Discrimination System using GRNN  

Lee Young-Sik (경동대학교 컴퓨터미디어공학부)
Bae Cheol-Soo (관동대학교 정보통신공학부)
Abstract
This paper describes a computer vision system based on active IR illumination for real-time gaze discrimination system. Unlike most of the existing gaze discrimination techniques, which often require assuming a static head to work well and require a cumbersome calibration process for each person, our gaze discrimination system can perform robust and accurate gaze estimation without calibration and under rather significant head movement. This is made possible by a new gaze calibration procedure that identifies the mapping from pupil parameters to screen coordinates using generalized regression neural networks (GRNNS). With GRNNS, the mapping does not have to be an analytical function and head movement is explicitly accounted for by the gaze mapping function. furthermore, the mapping function can generalize to other individuals not used in the training. To further improve the gaze estimation accuracy, we employ a reclassification scheme that deals with the classes that tend to be misclassified. This leads to a 10$\%$ improvement in classification error. The angular gaze accuracy is about $5^{circ}$horizontally and $8^{circ}$vertically. The effectiveness of our gaze tracker is demonstrated by experiments that involve gaze-contingent interactive graphic display.
Keywords
Eye tracking; Gaze Discrimination; GRNN;
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