Abstract
This work is motivated by our goal of providing non-contact head and eye based control of computer systems for people with motor difficulties. The system described here uses spatio-temporal filtering and variance maps to locate the head and find the eye-feature points, respectively. These feature points are accurately tracked in the succeeding frames by using a modified version of the Lucas-Kanade tracking algorithm with pyramidal implementation. Accurate head and eye tracking results are obtained at a processing rate of more than 30 frames per second (fps) in more than 90% cases with a low false positive blink detection rate of 0.01%. This is achieved under varying lighting conditions for people of different ethnicity, with and without wearing glasses. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 129-143 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Network and Computer Applications |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2002 |