November 25, 2019
It could make eye tracking a lot more widespread
Boston: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, are developing new mobile
software that can accurately identify where a person is looking in real time, an
advance that may lead smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to be
controlled by eye movements.
It could make eye tracking a lot more widespread and
also be helpful as a way to let you play games or navigate your smartphone
without having to tap or swipe.In an effort to make eye tracking instant heating tap
Manufacturers cheap, compact and accurate enough to be included in
smartphones, researchers are crowdsourcing the collection of gaze information
and sing it to teach mobile software how to figure out where a person is looking
in.7 centimetres on a tablet.
The andset's camera captures your face, and the
software considers factors like the position and direction of your head and eyes
to figure out where your gaze is focused on the screen.."About 1,500 people have
used the GazeCapture app so far," Khosla said, adding that if the researchers
can get data from 10,000 people they will be able to reduce the software's error
rate to half a centimetre, which should be good enough for a range of
eye-tracking applications.
Scientists are developing new software which lets
people control their smartphones with eyes. GazeCapture information was then
used to train software called iTracker.The researchers started out by building
an app called GazeCapture that gathered data about how people look at their
phones in different environments outside the confines of a lab, 'MIT Technology
Review' Users' gaze was recorded with the phone's front camera as they were
shown pulsating dots on a smartphone screen. However, he believes the system's
accuracy will improve with more data.
It could make eye tracking a lot more
widespread and also be helpful as a way to let you play games or navigate your
smartphone.To make sure they were paying attention, they were then shown a dot
with an "L" or "R" inside it, and they had to tap the left or ride side of the
screen in response.The researchers at Max Planck Institute for Informatics in
Germany, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Georgia
in the US, have so far been able to train software to identify where a person is
looking with an accuracy of about a centimetre on a mobile phone and 1.
It could
make eye tracking a lot more widespread and also be helpful as a way to let you
play games or navigate your smartphone.The technology has been expensive and has
required hardware that has made it tricky to add the capability to gadgets like
phones and tablets."It's still not exact enough to use for consumer
applications," said Aditya Khosla, a graduate student at MIT
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