Publication
Gaze Guided Object Recognition Using a Head-Mounted Eye Tracker
Takumi Toyama; Thomas Kieninger; Faisal Shafait; Andreas Dengel
In: The Seventh ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications. Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA-2012), March 28-30, Santa Barbara, California, USA, ACM, 2012.
Abstract
Wearable eye trackers open up a large number of opportunities to
cater for the information needs of users in today's dynamic society.
Users no longer have to sit in front of a traditional desk-mounted
eye tracker to benefit from the direct feedback given by the eye
tracker about users' interest. Instead, eye tracking can be used as
a ubiquitous interface in a real-world environment to provide users
with supporting information that they need. This paper presents
a novel application of intelligent interaction with the environment
by combining eye tracking technology with real-time object recognition.
In this context we present i) algorithms for guiding object
recognition by using fixation points ii) algorithms for generating
evidence of users' gaze on particular objects iii) building a next
generation museum guide called Museum Guide 2.0 as a prototype
application of gaze-based information provision in a real-world environment.
We performed several experiments to evaluate our gazebased
object recognition methods. Furthermore, we conducted a
user study in the context of Museum Guide 2.0 to evaluate the usability
of the new gaze-based interface for information provision.
These results show that an enormous amount of potential exists for
using a wearable eye tracker as a human-environment interface.