PuReST: Robust pupil tracking for real-time pervasive eye tracking

Thiago Santini, Wolfgang Fuhl, Enkelejda Kasneci

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Abstract

Pervasive eye-tracking applications such as gaze-based human computer interaction and advanced driver assistance require real-time, accurate, and robust pupil detection. However, automated pupil detection has proved to be an intricate task in real-world scenarios due to a large mixture of challenges – for instance, quickly changing illumination and occlusions. In this work, we introduce the Pupil Reconstructor with Subsequent Tracking (PuReST), a novel method for fast and robust pupil tracking. The proposed method was evaluated on over 266,000 realistic and challenging images acquired with three distinct head-mounted eye tracking devices, increasing pupil detection rate by 5.44 and 29.92 percentage points while reducing average run time by a factor of 2.74 and 1.1. w.r.t. state-of-the-art 1) pupil detectors and 2) vendor provided pupil trackers, respectively. Overall, PuReST outperformed other methods in 81.82% of use cases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - ETRA 2018
Subtitle of host publication2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
EditorsStephen N. Spencer
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450357067
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jun 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event10th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2018 - Warsaw, Poland
Duration: 14 Jun 201817 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameEye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium (ETRA)

Conference

Conference10th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2018
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityWarsaw
Period14/06/1817/06/18

Keywords

  • Embedded
  • Eye tracking
  • Open source
  • Pervasive
  • Pupil detection
  • Pupil tracking
  • Real-time

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