Re: [g-a-devel] Interesting open source, low-cost eye tracking system

["Leo Spalteholz" <leo spalteholz gmail com>]

I'm currently working on a head tracking project using webcams as part of a graduate course in computer vision..

I'll have a look at camtrack (thanks for the link, they're using hue tracking which might be the first step for me as well).  I'm using Opencv and Qt because that's what I have experience with, so it'll be a bit different.  

I work for CanAssist (a non-profit at the university of victoria that develops tech for people with disabilities), and one of the devices that some of our clients have shown great interest in is the Asus EeePC.  So one of the goals for my project is to make the headtracker work with the embedded webcam in an EeePC.   If that worked reliably it would be a fantastic assistive device for $400.

Leo

On Jan 25, 2008 12:24 AM, Steve Lee <steve fullmeasure co uk> wrote:

On 25/01/2008, Peter Korn <Peter Korn sun com> wrote:
> A colleague of mine sent me this pointer to a blog posting from Make
> Magazine about "OpenEyes", an inexpensive hacked-together open source

There's also OpenGazer which uses a webcam
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/opengazer/

I recently had a discussion with Gary Bishop about head tracker
projects of which he has tried most of the following and found them
all to be wanting in some way.

* http://live.gnome.org/CamTrack
* http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker
* http://ss12.info/projects.php said they got one working with a
forehead dot but there's still no info on the website.
* http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/headpointer (perhaps not FOSS ?)
* http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2007/12/head-tracking-for-desktop-vr-displays.html
and possibly
* freetrack (windows, wear loads of leds, freeware)

Plus there's Johnny Lee Chung's Wii based tracker
* http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

> eye tracking system:
> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/07/open_source_lowcost_realtime_e.html
>
> There are also a few videos at:
> http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/07/07/real-time-eye-tracking/
>
> Unfortunately the link that promises all the details -
> http://hcvl.hci.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/openEyes.cgi - isn't working for me
> a the moment...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
>
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