ALEBk: Feasibility Study of Attention Level Estimation via Blink Detection applied to e-Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09165v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:23:56 GMT
• Title: ALEBk: Feasibility Study of Attention Level Estimation via Blink Detection applied to e-Learning
• Authors: Roberto Daza, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, Ruth Cobos, Julian Fierrez
• Abstract summary: We experimentally evaluate the relationship between the eye blink rate and the attention level of students captured during online sessions. Results suggest an inverse correlation between the eye blink frequency and the attention level. Our results open a new research line to introduce this technology for attention level estimation on future e-learning platforms.
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• Abstract: This work presents a feasibility study of remote attention level estimation based on eye blink frequency. We first propose an eye blink detection system based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), very competitive with respect to related works. Using this detector, we experimentally evaluate the relationship between the eye blink rate and the attention level of students captured during online sessions. The experimental framework is carried out using a public multimodal database for eye blink detection and attention level estimation called mEBAL, which comprises data from 38 students and multiples acquisition sensors, in particular, i) an electroencephalogram (EEG) band which provides the time signals coming from the student's cognitive information, and ii) RGB and NIR cameras to capture the students face gestures. The results achieved suggest an inverse correlation between the eye blink frequency and the attention level. This relation is used in our proposed method called ALEBk for estimating the attention level as the inverse of the eye blink frequency. Our results open a new research line to introduce this technology for attention level estimation on future e-learning platforms, among other applications of this kind of behavioral biometrics based on face analysis.

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