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Head: Simon Baker
Contact: Simon Baker

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated labs/groups: Vision for Safe Driving and Face Group

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Project Description

Passive gaze estimation is usually performed by locating the pupils, and the inner and outer eye corners in the image of the driver's head. Of these feature points, the eye corners are just as important, and perhaps harder to detect, than the pupils. The eye corners are usually found using local feature detectors and trackers. On the other hand, we have built a passive gaze tracking system which uses a global head model, specifically an Active Appearance Model (AAM), to track the whole head. From the AAM, the eye corners, eye region, and head pose are robustly extracted and then used to estimate the gaze. See here for more details of our AAM tracking algorithms. See the movies below for examples of our results.


Movie of drivers head from interior camera
Corresponding movie of external scene

Past members

Name Title Email Address
Simon Baker Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
Takahiro Ishikawa Visiting Industrial Scholar
Takeo's personal homepage Takeo Kanade U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS tk@cs.cmu.edu
Iain's personal homepage Iain Matthews Senior Systems Scientist iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)

Publications

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