README.md

Event-driven Gaze Tracking with a Particle Filter

The algorithm performs tracking of eye-gaze target in-the-wild given the event-stream from an event-camera.

CPU

A C++ YARP module that runs the algorithm on a standard CPU.

How to build

1. install YARP
2. install event-driven
3. make sure both YARP and event-driven can be found on the environment path / project path
4. clone this repository (e.g. into ~/projects/particle-filter-tracking)
5. cd ~/projects/particle-filter-tracking && mkdir build && cd build
6. cmake ..
7. make
8. ensure the bin is found in the environment path

How to run

1. yarpserver --write
2. yarpmanager
3. open the provided yarpmanager application (particle-filter-tracking/cpu/gaze_tracking.xml)
4. run all
5. open a dataset with the yarpdataplayer
6. connect all
7. play the dataset on the yarpdataplayer

Note: you can substitute the yarpdataplayer with a live feed of an event-camera if it is yarp-compatible. Please contact the authors for more information if you want to make your camera yarp compatible.

Implementation

1. The --src folder contains two implementations for the circle-target based eye-ball tracking and the parabola-based eyebrow tracking (for efficient search space).
2. Compared to related methods, the tracking algorithm does not assume a fixed camera or head of a person.

Results

Parabola Tracking

video01.mp4

Circle Tracking

video_left.mp4