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Get a grip : Slippage-robust and glint-free gaze estimation for real-time pervasive head-mounted eye tracking

Santini, Thiago ; Niehorster, Diederick C. LU orcid and Kasneci, Enkelejda (2019) 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2019
Abstract

A key assumption conventionally made by flexible head-mounted eye-tracking systems is often invalid: The eye center does not remain stationary w.r.t. the eye camera due to slippage. For instance, eye-tracker slippage might happen due to head acceleration or explicit adjustments by the user. As a result, gaze estimation accuracy can be significantly reduced. In this work, we propose Grip, a novel gaze estimation method capable of instantaneously compensating for eye-tracker slippage without additional hardware requirements such as glints or stereo eye camera setups. Grip was evaluated using previously collected data from a large scale unconstrained pervasive eye-tracking study. Our results indicate significant slippage compensation... (More)

A key assumption conventionally made by flexible head-mounted eye-tracking systems is often invalid: The eye center does not remain stationary w.r.t. the eye camera due to slippage. For instance, eye-tracker slippage might happen due to head acceleration or explicit adjustments by the user. As a result, gaze estimation accuracy can be significantly reduced. In this work, we propose Grip, a novel gaze estimation method capable of instantaneously compensating for eye-tracker slippage without additional hardware requirements such as glints or stereo eye camera setups. Grip was evaluated using previously collected data from a large scale unconstrained pervasive eye-tracking study. Our results indicate significant slippage compensation potential, decreasing average participant median angular offset by more than 43% w.r.t. a non-slippage-robust gaze estimation method. A reference implementation of Grip was integrated into EyeRecToo, an open-source hardware-agnostic eye-tracking software, thus making it readily accessible for multiple eye trackers (Available at: www.ti.uni-tuebingen.de/perception).

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Calibration, Drift, Embedded, Eye tracking, Gaze estimation, Open source, Pervasive, Pupil tracking, Real-time, Slippage
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Proceedings - ETRA 2019 : 2019 ACM Symposium On Eye Tracking Research and Applications - 2019 ACM Symposium On Eye Tracking Research and Applications
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Spencer, Stephen N.
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17
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2019
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Denver, United States
conference dates
2019-06-25 - 2019-06-28
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  • scopus:85069454357
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9781450367097
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10.1145/3314111.3319835
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English
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  author       = {{Santini, Thiago and Niehorster, Diederick C. and Kasneci, Enkelejda}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings - ETRA 2019 : 2019 ACM Symposium On Eye Tracking Research and Applications}},
  editor       = {{Spencer, Stephen N.}},
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  keywords     = {{Calibration; Drift; Embedded; Eye tracking; Gaze estimation; Open source; Pervasive; Pupil tracking; Real-time; Slippage}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{06}},
  publisher    = {{Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}},
  title        = {{Get a grip : Slippage-robust and glint-free gaze estimation for real-time pervasive head-mounted eye tracking}},
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  doi          = {{10.1145/3314111.3319835}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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