Eye-tracking Head-mounted Display
Abstract
Immersion is the ultimate goal of head-mounted displays (HMD) for Virtual Reality (VR) in order to produce a convincing user experience. Two important aspects in this context are motion sickness, often due to imprecise calibration, and the integration of a reliable eye tracking. We propose an affordable hard- and software solution for drift-free eye-tracking and user-friendly lens calibration within an HMD. The use of dichroic mirrors leads to a lean design that provides the full field-of-view (FOV) while using commodity cameras for eye tracking.
Publications
Subtle Gaze Guidance for Immersive Environments
in Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), ACM, pp. 4:1-4:7, September 2017.
Gaze Visualization for Immersive Video
in Burch, Michael and Chuang, Lewis and Fisher, Brian and Schmidt, Albrecht and Weiskopf, Daniel (Eds.): Eye Tracking and Visualization, Springer, ISBN 978-3319470238, pp. 57-71, March 2017.
Adaptive Image-Space Sampling for Gaze-Contingent Real-time Rendering
Poster @ German Conference on Pattern Recognition 2016, September 2016.
Gaze-contingent Computational Displays: Boosting perceptual fidelity
in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 33, no. 5, IEEE, pp. 139-148, September 2016.
Adaptive Image-Space Sampling for Gaze-Contingent Real-time Rendering
in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering EGSR), vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 129-139, July 2016.
EGSR'16 Best Paper Award
An Affordable Solution for Binocular Eye Tracking and Calibration in Head-mounted Displays
in Proc. ACM Multimedia, pp. 15-24, October 2015.
Won the 'Best Student Paper Award'.
Visualization and Analysis of Head Movement and Gaze Data for Immersive Video in Head-mounted Displays
in Proc. Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS), vol. 1, October 2015.
An Affordable Solution for Binocular Eye Tracking and Calibration in Head-mounted Displays
Poster @ ACM Multimedia 2015, October 2015.
A Nonobscuring Eye Tracking Solution for Wide Field-of-View Head-mounted Displays
Technical Demo, March 2015.
IEEE VR, won the 'Honorable Mention' for Technical Demos.
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