关键词: 视线追踪, 网络摄像头, 头部姿态上下文, 人脸特征点检测, 头部姿态相似度

Abstract: Real-time eye tracking technology is the key technology of intelligent eye movement operating system. Compared to the technology based on eye tracker, the technology based on webcam has the advantages of low cost and high universality. Aiming at the low accuracy problem of the existing webcam based algorithms only with the eye image features considered, an optimization technology for eye tracking algorithm with head pose analysis introduced was proposed. Firstly, the head pose features were constructed based on the results of facial feature point tracking to provide head pose context for the calibration data. Secondly, a new similarity algorithm was studied to calculate the similarity of the head pose context. Finally, during the eye tracking, the head pose similarity was used to filter the calibration data, and the data with higher head pose similarity to the current input frame was selected from the calibration dataset for prediction. A large number of experiments were carried out on the data of populations with different characteristics. The comparison experimental results show that compared with WebGazer, the proposed algorithm has the average error reduced by 58 to 63 px. The proposed algorithm can effectively improve the accuracy and stability of the tracking results, and expand the application scenarios of webcam in the field of eye tracking.

Key words: eye tracking, webcam, head pose context, facial feature detection, head pose similarity