We describe an open-source software framework that simulates the measurements made using one or several cameras in a videooculographic eye tracker. The framework can be used to compare objectively the performance of different eye tracking setups (number and placement of cameras and light sources) and gaze estimation algorithms. We demonstrate the utility of the framework by using it to compare two remote eye tracking methods, one using a single camera, the other using two cameras.
Abstract-This paper presents a very simple feature-based nose detector in combined range and amplitude data obtained by a 3D time-of-flight camera. The robust localization of image attributes, such as the nose, can be used for accurate object tracking. We use geometric features that are related to the intrinsic dimensionality of surfaces. To find a nose in the image, the features are computed per pixel; pixels whose feature values lie inside a certain bounding box in feature space are classified as nose pixels, and all other pixels are classified as non-nose pixels. The extent of the bounding box is learned on a labeled training set. Despite its simplicity this procedure generalizes well, that is, a bounding box determined for one group of subjects accurately detects noses of other subjects. The performance of the detector is demonstrated by robustly identifying the nose of a person in a wide range of head orientations. An important result is that the combination of both range and amplitude data dramatically improves the accuracy in comparison to the use of a single type of data. This is reflected in the equal error rates (EER) obtained on a database of head poses. Using only the range data, we detect noses with an EER of 0.66. Results on the amplitude data are slightly better with an EER of 0.42. The combination of both types of data yields a substantially improved EER of 0.03.
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