EyeRecToo: Open-source Software for Real-time Pervasive Head-mounted Eye Tracking

Thiago Santini, Wolfgang Fuhl, David Geisler, Enkelejda Kasneci

2017

Abstract

Head-mounted eye tracking offers remarkable opportunities for research and applications regarding pervasive health monitoring, mental state inference, and human computer interaction in dynamic scenarios. Although a plethora of software for the acquisition of eye-tracking data exists, they often exhibit critical issues when pervasive eye tracking is considered, e.g., closed source, costly eye tracker hardware dependencies, and requiring a human supervisor for calibration. In this paper, we introduce EyeRecToo, an open-source software for real-time pervasive head-mounted eye-tracking. Out of the box, EyeRecToo offers multiple real-time state-ofthe- art pupil detection and gaze estimation methods, which can be easily replaced by user implemented algorithms if desired. A novel calibration method that allows users to calibrate the system without the assistance of a human supervisor is also integrated. Moreover, this software supports multiple head-mounted eye-tracking hardware, records eye and scene videos, and stores pupil and gaze information, which are also available as a real-time stream. Thus, EyeRecToo serves as a framework to quickly enable pervasive eye-tracking research and applications. Available at: www.ti.uni-tuebingen.de/perception.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Santini T., Fuhl W., Geisler D. and Kasneci E. (2017). EyeRecToo: Open-source Software for Real-time Pervasive Head-mounted Eye Tracking . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 6: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-227-1, pages 96-101. DOI: 10.5220/0006224700960101

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp17,
author={Thiago Santini and Wolfgang Fuhl and David Geisler and Enkelejda Kasneci},
title={EyeRecToo: Open-source Software for Real-time Pervasive Head-mounted Eye Tracking},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 6: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={96-101},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006224700960101},
isbn={978-989-758-227-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 6: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - EyeRecToo: Open-source Software for Real-time Pervasive Head-mounted Eye Tracking
SN - 978-989-758-227-1
AU - Santini T.
AU - Fuhl W.
AU - Geisler D.
AU - Kasneci E.
PY - 2017
SP - 96
EP - 101
DO - 10.5220/0006224700960101