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Head and gaze tracking | |
Project Type: MSc Project | |
Research Field: Augmented Reality | |
Time span: 09/2011-09/2012 | |
Description: The goal is to analyze when a user presents similar behaviors in immersive augmented reality (AR) environments as it would be on a real environments. Eye/head gaze path information can provide objective to measures to “sense of presence” on augmented reality environments.
Description of work Task 1: State of the art Analyze the state of the art, evaluate and select eye/head gaze tracking methods that tend to be intuitive, easy to use, non-invasive and cheap. Task 2: Hardware/Software setup This subtask aims the data acquisition setup, video camera, software development to perform path analysis. This task intends to develop standards procedures for system calibration. Task 4: Eye and/or head tracking Develop and implement an interface that controls an application by tracking eyes and/or head with non invasive and cheap technologies. Evaluate opengaze webcam-based eye tracker and precision measures procedures aiming the characterization of eye/head path movement’s patterns on augmented reality environments. Task 5: Augmented Reality Scene Generation Augmented reality scene generation. Scene stimulus definition and progressive inclusion. Sense of presence factors analyses (anxiety, stress, etc). Real scenes eye/head path characterization and comparison with immersive AR environments. Experimental demo setup designed to enhance user senses. Task 7: Evaluation Conduct experiences with several people to evaluate the intuitiveness, applicability and stress associate to the proposed solutions.
Deliverables: - Prototype of the Interface - Interfaces Demo - Report on eye/head movement’s analyses, augmented reality stimulus generation and software application - Publication
Advisors: Professor Paulo Menezes (DEEC), and Luis Almeida (IPT)
Requirements: C/C++ programming skills Useful skill: Computer Graphics Programming (OpenAR - Augmented Reality development tool, OpenCV, OpenGL, artificial vision capturing and processing techniques) | |
Related People
![]() | Paulo Menezes |
![]() | Luís Almeida |
![]() | Miguel Brito |