pscholl / eyelike

##eyeLike An OpenCV based webcam gaze tracker based on a simple image gradient-based eye center algorithm by Fabian Timm.

This is still a work in progress and does not track gaze yet.

##Status The eye center tracking works well but I don't have a reference point like eye corner yet so it can't actually track where the user is looking.

If anyone with more experience than me has ideas on how to effectively track a reference point or head pose so that the gaze point on the screen can be calculated contact me.

##Building

CMake is required to build eyeLike.

###OSX or Linux with Make

# do things in the build directory so that we don't clog up the main directory
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
./bin/eyeLike # the executable file

###On OSX with XCode

mkdir build
./cmakeBuild.sh

then open the XCode project in the build folder and run from there.

###On Windows There is some way to use CMake on Windows but I am not familiar with it.

##Blog Article:

• Using Fabian Timm's Algorithm

##Paper: Timm and Barth. Accurate eye centre localisation by means of gradients. In Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Computer Theory and Applications (VISAPP), volume 1, pages 125-130, Algarve, Portugal, 2011. INSTICC.

(also see youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aGmGyFLQAFM)