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Senseye is developing eye tracking technology that uses a camera and infrared LEDs to track eye movements and allow for hands-free control of mobile devices, which could benefit both everyday users and those with disabilities. Their goal is to create an affordable $100 USB device that adds eye tracking capabilities to existing smartphones and tablets. While still a work in progress, early tests show the technology is able to track eye movements with 90% accuracy.

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Presented By: Kirti Arora

Senseye is developing eye tracking technology that uses a camera and infrared LEDs to track eye movements and allow for hands-free control of mobile devices, which could benefit both everyday users and those with disabilities. Their goal is to create an affordable $100 USB device that adds eye tracking capabilities to existing smartphones and tablets. While still a work in progress, early tests show the technology is able to track eye movements with 90% accuracy.

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Presented By: Kirti Arora

A few years ago Touch Screen Smartphone, which had quite comfortable Interface, were a novelty.
Since the launch of the Iphone 4s in Oct. 2011, siri, a voice-activated response system, has been considered all the rage. Voice activation may take a back seat, however, as new technology that uses ones eyes to activate the screen, scroll through Web pages and play games makes its debut.

To Senseye , which is the name of the company and the product, the future is not in the voice commands but in the management of our mobile terminal and looking at movement of our eyes .

Technology that tracks the movement of your eyes using a camera. Uses complex algorithms, precise enough to track the movement of the eye.

Senseye combines cameras and infrared LEDs to track eye movements. It tracks the eyes of a user with the help of the front-facing cameras, which are usually installed in most mobile devices.

The front-facing cameras will then transmit commands to other components of a Smartphone, allowing users to control various functions and capabilities of their devices.

The computer-vision algorithms used are precise enough that your phone will be able to tell even what icon you're looking at. Allows users to have a completely hands-free experience with their Android Devices.

The technology could be great for handicaps, as well as everyday users who need to control their phones or computer, but need to keep their hands free for other activities.

Dim the screen when it notices that no one is watching it. Scroll pages by tracking eye movements. Enter passwords by tracking eye movements across numbers. Shoot video games enemies also by tracking eye movements across a video game screen. Allow advertisers to track how long users look at various elements on the screen.

Its still a work-in-progress. The developers say that it works for 90% of the people it has been tested with. People can now use it while holding their phone naturally in their hand(instead of a fixed stand), as it also allows for small head movements. Meanwhile, the team is prototyping a small device expected to retail for $100 that will fit into the USB port on smartphones and tablets, making it possible to do eye tracking on existing devices, even without the OS-level integration that should arrive in the future.

Senseye is based on previous work by these developers, a free software product called ITU Gaze Tracker, developed at the University of Copenhagen, whose aim was precisely to track the eye movement and has served as the basis for this idea that seeks to explore new interfaces for human-machine interaction.

A gaze tracking system, or gaze tracker, is a device that measures eye movements and estimates gaze. Gaze tracking is the process of measuring the "Point of Regard" (PoR) or the "Line of Sight" (LoS) of the eye, and tracking it over time. This process can be divided into two sub processes: Eye tracking, i.e. detecting and tracking eye features and movements. Gaze estimation, i.e. calculating the eye gaze from eye features.

Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze ("where we are looking") or the motion of an eye relative to the head. An eye tracker is a device for measuring eye positions and eye movement. Commonly used technology for eye tracking is videobased gaze tracking, which consists of one or more cameras that record the eye(s) of the user.

In the initial step, the camera grabs an image, which is transferred to a computer. The gaze tracking software will extract some eye features from the image, such as pupil center or iris center. These eye features are then mapped to eye gaze through a user calibration process.

Due to noise, gaze data might be jittery, and therefore a fixation detection step is added to smooth data when a fixation is detected.

Gaze tracking technology to be used is low-cost and off-the-shelf components, such as webcams and video cameras. Hardware modifications, such as building an infrared LED, and hardware calibration is avoided.

So work would be done in uncalibrated setups where the location of the different components is unknown.
This improves flexibility.

Aim is to build a gaze tracking system that works indoor and outdoor under heavy illumination disturbance, and that can be used in mobile scenarios. For this, different algorithms have been developed to improve eye tracking under changing illumination conditions.

Although the product is still at a very early stage, the developers have tested it on Android, which have been able to control a game with a 90% success rate in capturing the movement and translation movements or keyboard controls.

In fact, this start-up is developing a similar system with USB connectivity so that this software can also be integrated into smartphones and tablets without the need for integration at operating system level.

Senseye is cheap to manufacture the company claims the total cost of camera and LED is around $5 which means it'll be far more likely to see wide-implementation than many of the experimental technologies

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