A Study of Eye-Tracking Gaze Point Classification and Application Based on Conditional Random Field

Abstract

The head-mounted eye-tracking technology is often used to manipulate the motion of servo platform in remote tasks, so as to achieve visual aiming of servo platform, which is a highly integrated human-computer interaction effect. However, it is difficult to achieve accurate manipulation for the uncertain meanings of gaze points in eye-tracking. To solve this problem, a method of classifying gaze points based on a conditional random field is proposed. It first describes the features of gaze points and gaze images, according to the eye visual characteristic. An LSTM model is then introduced to merge these two features. Afterwards, the merge features are learned by CRF model to obtain the classified gaze points. Finally, the meaning of gaze point is classified for target, in order to accurately manipulate the servo platform. The experimental results show that the proposed method can classify more accurate target gaze points for 100 images, the average evaluation values Precision = 86.81%, Recall = 86.79%, We = 86.79%, these are better than relevant methods. In addition, the isolated gaze points can be eliminated, and the meanings of gaze points can be classified to achieve the accuracy of servo platform visual aiming.