Real Time Eye Tracking in Unconstrained Environments

In this paper, an effective method for human eye tracking and also decreasing the current challenges and problems in its algorithms, possibly as real time and for unconstrained environments has been proposed. In this method, firstly face has been detected and segmented from the remaining parts to make the searching area in tracking stage, narrower and processing speed higher. Then eye area is determined and eye pupils are detected in the specified area. In the proposed method, to support tracking in eye occlusion state, corner detection has been additionally used. Experimental results show the potential of this method for real time eye tracking in unconstrained environments with existence of complex background, head and face rotation, beard, makeup, eye glasses and veil, even while the eyes are closed. The correct recognition rate of the proposed method is about 91.9%.

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