Multi-level thresholding for pupil location in eye-gaze tracking systerm

A new pupil location methodis proposed in eye-gaze tracking system. Firstly, input images are enhanced in order to reduce the influence of illumination. Secondly, multiple candidate thresholds are obtained in terms of the valleys in histogram, and then different segmentation results are available. Further, a fusion method based on the overlaps of segmentation results is proposed which acquired candidate regions and the eye region is obtained according to the entropy information of candidate regions. Thirdly, a simple and effective threshold segmentation method based on eye characteristic is employed and pupil area is obtained. Finally, the center of pupil is acquired by ellipse fitting. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed methods were effective to improve pupil location accuracy.

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