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Optical Mouse Sensor for Eye Blink Detection and Pupil Tracking: Application in a Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Pointing Device
Joint Authors
Tresanchez, Marcel
Pallejà, Tomàs
Palacín, Jordi
Source
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-19, 19 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-12-10
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
19
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
In this paper, a new application of the optical mouse sensor is presented.
The optical mouse is used as a main low-cost infrared vision system of a new proposal of a head-mounted human-computer interaction (HCI) device controlled by eye movements.
The default optical mouse sensor lens and illumination source are replaced in order to improve its field of view and capture entire eye images.
A complementary 8-bit microcontroller is used to acquire and process these images with two optimized algorithms to detect forced eye blinks and pupil displacements which are translated to computer pointer actions.
This proposal introduces an inexpensive and approachable plug and play (PnP) device for people with severe disability in the upper extremities, neck, and head.
The presented pointing device performs standard computer mouse actions with no extra software required.
It uses the human interface device (HID) standard class of the universal serial bus (USB) increasing its compatibility for most computer platforms.
This new device approach is aimed at improving comfortability and portability of the current commercial devices with simple installation and calibration.
Several performance tests were done with different volunteer users obtaining an average pupil detection error of 0.34 pixels with a successful detection in 82.6% of all mouse events requested by means of pupil tracking.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Tresanchez, Marcel& Pallejà, Tomàs& Palacín, Jordi. 2019. Optical Mouse Sensor for Eye Blink Detection and Pupil Tracking: Application in a Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Pointing Device. Journal of Sensors،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1187518
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Tresanchez, Marcel…[et al.]. Optical Mouse Sensor for Eye Blink Detection and Pupil Tracking: Application in a Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Pointing Device. Journal of Sensors No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1187518
American Medical Association (AMA)
Tresanchez, Marcel& Pallejà, Tomàs& Palacín, Jordi. Optical Mouse Sensor for Eye Blink Detection and Pupil Tracking: Application in a Low-Cost Eye-Controlled Pointing Device. Journal of Sensors. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-19.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1187518
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1187518