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Visual focus of attention estimation using eye center localization

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posted on 2019-10-09, 09:10 authored by Haibin CaiHaibin Cai, Bangli Liu, Jianhua Zhang, Shengyong Chen, Honghai Liu
Estimating people visual focus of attention (VFOA) plays a crucial role in various practical systems such as human-robot interaction. It is challenging to extract the cue of the VFOA of a person due to the difficulty of recognizing gaze directionality. In this paper, we propose an improved integrodifferential approach to represent gaze via efficiently and accurately localizing the eye center in lower resolution image. The proposed method takes advantage of the drastic intensity changes between the iris and the sclera and the grayscale of the eye center as well. The number of kernels is optimized to convolute the original eye region image, and the eye center is located via searching the maximum ratio derivative of the neighbor curve magnitudes in the convolution image. Experimental results confirm that the algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of computational cost, accuracy, and robustness to illumination changes.

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EU seventh framework programme DREAM (611391) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (61325019)

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Computer Science

Published in

IEEE Systems Journal

Volume

11

Issue

3

Pages

1320 - 1325

Publisher

IEEE

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© IEEE

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Acceptance date

2015-05-30

Publication date

2015-07-07

Copyright date

2015

ISSN

1932-8184

eISSN

1937-9234

Language

  • en

Depositor

Haibin Cai

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