Using Deep Learning to Increase Eye-Tracking Robustness, Accuracy, and Precision in Virtual Reality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19768v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:43:25 GMT
• Title: Using Deep Learning to Increase Eye-Tracking Robustness, Accuracy, and Precision in Virtual Reality
• Authors: Kevin Barkevich, Reynold Bailey, Gabriel J. Diaz,
• Abstract summary: This work provides an objective assessment of the impact of several contemporary machine learning (ML)-based methods for eye feature tracking. Metrics include the accuracy and precision of the gaze estimate, as well as drop-out rate.
• Score: 2.2639735235640015
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Algorithms for the estimation of gaze direction from mobile and video-based eye trackers typically involve tracking a feature of the eye that moves through the eye camera image in a way that covaries with the shifting gaze direction, such as the center or boundaries of the pupil. Tracking these features using traditional computer vision techniques can be difficult due to partial occlusion and environmental reflections. Although recent efforts to use machine learning (ML) for pupil tracking have demonstrated superior results when evaluated using standard measures of segmentation performance, little is known of how these networks may affect the quality of the final gaze estimate. This work provides an objective assessment of the impact of several contemporary ML-based methods for eye feature tracking when the subsequent gaze estimate is produced using either feature-based or model-based methods. Metrics include the accuracy and precision of the gaze estimate, as well as drop-out rate.

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