Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI (전자공학회논문지CI)

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Human-Computer Interface using the Eye-Gaze Direction

눈의 응시 방향을 이용한 인간-컴퓨터간의 인터페이스에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Do-Hyoung (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST) ;
  • Kim, Jea-Hean (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST) ;
  • Chung, Myung-Jin (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST)
  • 김도형 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과) ;
  • 김재헌 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과) ;
  • 정명진 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과)
  • Published : 2001.11.25
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Abstract

In this paper we propose an efficient approach for real-time eye-gaze tracking from image sequence and magnetic sensory information. The inputs to the eye-gaze tracking system are images taken by a camera and data from a magnetic sensor. The measuring data are sufficient to describe the eye and head movement, because the camera and the receiver of a magnetic sensor are stationary with respect to the head. Experimental result shows the validity of real time application aspect of the proposed system and also shows the feasibility of the system as using a new computer interface instead of the mouse.

본 논문에서는 연속적인 영상 정보와 자기 센서의 정보로부터 실시간으로 눈의 응시 방향을 추적하기 위한 효과적인 접근 방법에 대해 제안한다. 이러한 눈 응시 추적 시스템의 입력으로는 한 대의 카메라를 통해 얻어지는 영상들과 자기 센서의 데이터들이다. 눈의 영상을 받아들이는 카메라와 자기 센서의 수신부가 머리에 고정되어 있어서 측정된 데이터들은 눈과 머리의 움직임을 표현하는데 충분하다. 실험 결과에서는 제안한 시스템이 실시간으로 동작하는 측면에 대해 그 유용성을 보여줄 것이고 또 그러한 시스템을 이용하여 마우스 대신 새로운 컴퓨터 인터페이스로 사용할 수 있다는 가능성을 보여줄 것이다.

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